"My heart is like a rainbow shell / That paddles in a halcyon sea."
— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Work Title
Date
April 1861
Metaphor
"My heart is like a rainbow shell / That paddles in a halcyon sea."
Metaphor in Context
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
(ll. 1-8)
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
(ll. 1-8)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Rossetti, Christina. "A Birthday." Macmillan's Magazine. April 1861. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
12/11/2009
