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My Heart is Like a Singing Bird - Selected Bird Poems of Christina Rossetti contains a fantastic collection of beautiful nature poetry by English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti, with each poem linked by the common theme of birds. A wonderful little poetry pocket book brimming with 15 delightful avian poems coupled with colour illustrations by John James Audubon that would make for a fantastic gift for birdwatchers, twitchers and literature lovers alike. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English writer famous for her devotional, romantic, and children’s poems. Her most well known poems include Goblin Market and Remember , and she also wrote the lyrics to two famous British Christmas carols: In the Bleak Midwinter and Love Came Down at Christmas . Other notable works by this author include: Commonplace and Other Stories (1870), Speaking Likenesses (1874), and Called to Be Saints (1881). Contents include: Birds and Poets, an Excerpt by John Burroughs , A Birthday , The First Spring Day , A Birds-eye View , On the Wing , A Bird Song , Bird Raptures , Bird or Beast? , A Green Cornfield , Gone Forever , Symbols , April - An excerpt from The Months: A Pageant , Freaks of Fashion , An Old World Thicket , A Wintry Sonnet , and The Peacock has a Score of Eyes . Ragged Hand is proud to be publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry now complete with illustrations by James John Audubon and an excerpt by John Burroughs.
