| To My Mother | |
| Christina Rossetti (1842) | |
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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. (This is Rossetti’s first poem, written when she was 11 years old.) 
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