A Birthday

      Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird

我心如莺 
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;

润枝高栖 
My heart is like an apple-tree

我心如树 
Whose boughs bent with thickset fruit;

青果依依 
My heart is like a rainbow shell,

我心如舟 
That paddles in a halcyon sea;

划破虹霓

My heart is gladder than all these

我心灿烂无比 
Because my love is come to me.

因为爱来到我心里

Raise me a dais of silk and down；

置我高台 
Hang it with vair and purple dyes；

紫幕悬开
Carve it in doves and pomegranates，

榴满鸽咿 
And peacocks with a hundred eyes；
百目雉啼

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

金珠银葡 
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys；
花明叶丽                                  

Because the birthday of my life

新生就此到来
Is come, my love is come to me. 

因为我，被爱袭击

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 shoot:  幼苗；嫩芽；新枝    /     bough:  大树枝    /     shell:  轻快的小艇     /     halcyon:  太平的，愉快的, 幸福的

dais: 上座，高座  /  vair: 松鼠的皮,毛皮纹   / pomegranate: 石榴,石榴树  /  fleur-de-lis: 鸢尾,鸢尾花形的章纹