A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest ______ in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart ______ like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my ______ is come to me.
Raise me a dais of ______ and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
______ it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a ______ eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In ______ and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
______ come, my love is come to me.