VALENTINE

Related Subjects: Cupid, Love

1. Muse, bid the Morn awake!
   Sad Winter now declines,
   Each bird both choose a mate;
   This day's Saint Valentine's.—MICHAEL DRAYTON, To His Valentine
   

2. Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
   Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day:
   But by their flight I never can devine
   When I shall couple with my Valentine.—ROBERT HERRICK, To His Valentine
   

3. Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine,
   Love, thou art every day my Valentine!—THOMAS HOOD, For the Fourteenth of February
   

4. Hail to thy returning festival, old Bishop Valentine! Great is thy name in the rubric, thou venerable Archflamen of Hymen! Immortal Go-Between; who and what manner of person art thou? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection in union? or wert thou indeed a mortal prelate, with thy tippet and thy rochet, thy apron on, and decent lawn sleeves? Mysterious personage! like unto thee, assuredly, there is no other mitred father in the calendar.—CHARLES LAMB, Essays of Elia: Valentine's Day
   

5. By and by comes Mrs. Pierce, with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost me money.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
   

6. Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
   All in the morning betime.
   And I a maid at your window,
   To be your Valentine.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet