A Valentine to My Wife

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Accept, dear girl, this little token,
And if between the lines you seek,
You'll find the love I've often spoken—
The love my dying lips shall speak.

Our little ones are making merry
O'er am'rous ditties rhymed in jest,
But in these words (though awkward—very)
The genuine article's expressed.

You are as fair and sweet and tender,
Dear brown-eyed little sweetheart mine,
As when, a callow youth and slender,
I asked to be your Valentine.

What though these years of ours be fleeting?
What though the years of youth be flown?
I'll mock old Tempus with repeating,
"I love my love and her alone!"

And when I fall before his reaping,
And when my stuttering speech is dumb,
Think not my love is dead or sleeping,
But that it waits for you to come.

So take, dear love, this little token,
And if there speaks in any line
The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,
Say, will you kiss your Valentine?
-Eugene Field

Other poetry

I Love You Well

I wish not to love you much,

Only to love you well.

Much is but a quantity,

Dream to Live

 

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

Love At First Sight

When first we touched,

My heart flew high,

On gossamer wings through a cloudless

The People Upstairs

The people upstairs all practice ballet

Their living room is a bowling alley

Thei

My Dream
MY dream, a vagabond,
Hovering in endless woe;
Wings tattered like a cloth,
Searching for t

Say Yes...

Say yes, and we could surf the highest waves,

Your hand in mine, never losing faith.

What Do I See In You

What do I see in you? Oh boy. Oh boy,

I see mountains and rivers a lifetime of joy,

Truth Untold

My pain and misery fall from the sky

So hard I try to ignore it, but it still gets by.

Inner Strength

It's only through mistakes we make

We learn where we went wrong.

It's only when w

Kiss Of Love

You sing,

I smile,

"I get a kick out of you,"

You sing still,

And