On my little sister’s birthday. Happy birthday by the sea!
from A Birthday / by Christina Rossetti
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.
Birthday
DPF / Longfellow
Henri to Henry. My 86-year-old father-in-law can recite the first stanza of this poem from memory, a stanza he learned to recite in 5th or 6th grade, around 1938. So today, a memory in celebration of memory and in celebration, a Happy Birthday, to his forever-lovely bride.
from A Psalm of Life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
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