To My Mother / Christina Rossetti

Harrison Weir (1824-1906),

 Flowers for Mother,  ca. 1880.

 Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 

    To My Mother

    To-day's your natal day;
            Sweet flowers I bring:
    Mother, accept, I pray
            My offering.

    And may you happy live,
            And long us bless;
    Receiving as you give
            Great happiness.

~~
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
from Poems for Children, 1907

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Christina Rossetti biography

"To My Mother" read for Eternal Poems.