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Valentine's Day: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

On paper curiousiy shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines yclep'd, To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the motley throng, And greet the all auspicious day, Whose privilege permits my song My love thus secret to convey.— HENRY G. BOHN — MS. Dictionary of

Poetical Quotations. Valentines. Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.— HERRICK -To his Valentine, on St.

Valentine's Day. No popular respect will I omit To do the honour on this happy day, When every loyal lover tasks his wit His simple truth in studious rhymes to pay, And to his mistress dear his hopes convey. Rather thou knowest I would still outrun All calendars with Love's whose date alway Thy bright eyes govern better than the Sun,- For with thy favour was my life begun, And still I reckon on from smiles to smiles, And not by summers, for I thrive on none But those thy cheerful countenance compiles; Oh! if it be to choose and call thee mine, Love, thou art every day my Valentine!