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Love Poems

Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind
Their paramours with mutual chirpings find,
I early rose just at the break of day,
before the sun had chased the stars away:
A-field I went, amid the morning dew,
To milk my kine (for so should housewives do).
Thee first I spied - and the first swain we see,
In spite of Fortune shall our true love be.

-The Words are Those of a Rural Woman - John Gay

Good Morrow, friends!
St Valentine is past;
begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
-A MidsummerNight's Dream - Shakespeare

Muse, bid the moon awake,
Sad winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate,
This day's Saint Valentine's
-Michael Drayton

Saint Valentine, thou art full high on loft,
Which driveth away the long nightes back,
Thus singen smalle foules for thy sake,
Will have they cause for to gladden oft,
Since each of them recovered hath his Make:
Full blissful may they sing,
when they awake.
-Geoffrey Chaucer

Hail, Bishop Valentine! whose day this is:
All the air is thy diocese,
And all the chirping choristers
And other birds are thy parishioners:
Thou marryest every year
The lyric lark and the grave whispering dove;
The sparrow that neglects his life for love,
The household bird with the red stomacher;
Thou mak'st the blackbird speed as soon
As doth the goldfinch or the halcyon-
This day more cheerfully than ever shine,
This day which might inflame thyself, old Valentine!
-John Donne

I thank God he sent you to me, For you and I were meant to be. We have a bond too strong to break, We have a love no one can take. In you, I have found a love so true, My heart is filled with love for you. Every time I see you, my heart skips a beat, You make my life whole, you make my life complete. My love for you grows more with each passing day, The thought of your gorgeous face takes my breath away: Those brown eyes fill my soul with happiness, Those luscious lips I love to kiss. The day when I become your wife, Will be the happiest day of my life. Even thinking of that day makes me smile, I can't wait 'till I walk down that aisle. I dream of that day when we'll both say, "I do" For always and forever... I will love you.
-I Thank God He Sent You to Me.Author Celina

How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life !--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death

-SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Go, little gloves, salute my
Valentine
Which was, which is, which must and shall be mine.
Love to thee I send these gloves
If you love me, leave out the 'g'
And make a pair of loves.

-17th Century verse on a card

This morning comes in
W. Bowyer who was my wife's Valentine...
-Diary - Samuel Pepys

Goodmorrow Valentine
I'll be yours
If you'll be mine
Valentine - Valentine

-Traditional Rhyme - England

Go, little gloves, salute my valentine
which was, which is, which must and shall be mine.
Love to thee I send these gloves
If you love me, leave out the 'g'
And make a pair of loves.
-17th Century verse on a card

Tomorrow is St Valentine's Day
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your valentine!
-Hamlet - Shakespeare

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