Valentine's Day is a great time to teach or review figurative language, such as similes, before high stakes state testing in February and March. With its theme of love, this poem, "A Birthday," by Christina Georgina Rossetti, is the perfect Valentine's Day poem. It also makes a stellar mentor poem for teaching similes (or anaphora). A Birthday by Christina Georgina RossettiMy heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot;My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs ar