Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO ---, ON HER OBSERVING THAT ST. VALENTINE'S DAY WAS HER BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS


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TO ---, ON HER OBSERVING THAT ST. VALENTINE'S DAY WAS HER BIRTHDAY, by                    
First Line: If I remember, shepherds say
Last Line: And feel and worship him in thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day


IX.

IF I remember, shepherds say
That this is Love's selected day;
But doubly dear it now must be
Since sacred both to Love and thee.

Not one in all the circling year
Can be so justly, deeply dear,
Since Love and Beauty both combine
To give to this a claim divine.

For when could Love so fitly be
Adored, as when we think on thee?
Or thou be worshipped, Beauty say,
So fitly as on Love's own day?

Upon the morn that saw thy birth
Young Love was wandering on the earth,
And marked thee from thy natal hour,
Knowing the bud contained the flower:

And on that lip—that cheek—those eyes,
He set his seal: we recognise
The impress of divinity,
And feel and worship him in thee!





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