DEAR, may I be your Valentine? Not just to-day, in weather fine; Not just to-day, in lover's mood, But through life's each vicissitude. Not just when girlish eyes still shine, Dear, may I be your Valentine, But through all mortal whims and fits While Time our human fibres knits. And though, most sweet, my peevish earth Is hardly such promotion worth, Dear, may I be your Valentine And learn to make your virtue mine? Recalling by love's old refrain Our double joy, divided pain, I write this pleading, smiling line -- @3Dear, may I be your Valentine?@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE by ANNE BRADSTREET KUBLA KHAN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TRULY GREAT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE TARRY BUCCANEER by JOHN MASEFIELD |