{"id":5490,"date":"2012-02-14T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:15:26","slug":"my-heart-is-like-a-singing-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this Valentine\u2019s Day, a poem by Christina Rossetti, and a painting.<\/p>\n

For another beautiful Valentine poem, and a different painting, please see The Song of Wandering Aengus<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"QueenOfLove\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My heart is like a singing bird<\/em>
\n Whose nest is in a water\u2019d shoot;<\/em>
\n My heart is like an apple-tree<\/em>
\n Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;<\/em>
\n My heart is like a rainbow shell<\/em>
\n That paddles in a halcyon sea;<\/em>
\n My heart is gladder than all these,<\/em>
\n Because my love is come to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Raise me a da\u00efs of silk and down;<\/em>
\n Hang it with vair and purple dyes;<\/em>
\n Carve it in doves and pomegranates,<\/em>
\n And peacocks with a hundred eyes;<\/em>
\n Work it in gold and silver grapes,<\/em>
\n In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;<\/em>
\n Because the birthday of my life<\/em>
\n Is come, my love is come to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)<\/p>\n

\"CakeGreen\"<\/a>Bill
\n\"CakeBalloons2\"<\/a>Jack<\/p>\n

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On this Valentine\u2019s Day, a poem by Christina Rossetti, and a painting. For another beautiful Valentine poem, and a different painting, please see The Song of Wandering Aengus. My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water\u2019d shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23,76,73,78,4,19,144,156],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-festival","tag-flowers","tag-garden","tag-love","tag-mythology","tag-poem","tag-print","tag-valentine"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9449,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}