Valentine's Day poetry, anyone?
 

SONNET 116, Shakespeare...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Oh Juliet.
 

What light from yonder window breaks?


None. I bought Cooleroos.

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.

2B or not 2B, that is the question, I am trying to figure out. :D

Language: German [Du bist mein! Ich bin dein!] Des sollst du gewiß [sein]. Du bist beschlossen in meinem Herzen, Verloren ist das Schlüsselein - [Du mußt immer darinnen sein!]

southern: huh? whadidusay?

English please, as I am too lazy to look it up. :D

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

WHAT'S WRONG WITH
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
And if God wills, I will but love thee better after death.


And I hope that won't be for awhile, my Sweetie.


Happy Valentines' Day.

This is for my Sweetie!!

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And I love you

Your smile is amazing
Your beauty so true
Your eyes shine like stars
They will see our love through

You're a gift from the angels
They made you in heaven
The girl that I dreamt about
Since I was eleven

You came in to my life
And you turned it upside down
You're an absolute princess
Worthy of more then a crown

I promise you everything
Everything I have to give
I promise to love you
As long as I live

You're my absolute world
You mean everything to me
You're perfect
And you always shall be

I think we have a winner!:0000000000luvmyhors

Blinking back tears here. Beautiful. And your Sweetie is a very fortunate woman.

Yours above is also one of my favorites........
Here's another that is hauntingly beautiful..........though sad.

It always reminds me of my childhood girlfriend who ended up being my maid of honor, dying young; devastating her young husband, a Vietnam war vet who also suffered from Agent Orange. He followed..... shortly after she died.....(I still remember when he called me one early New Year's Day morning to tell me she had passed overnight in the emergency room from her Lupus/enlarged heart.

Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


Edgar Allan Poe

Thanks Gracie!!! And I can tell you have the same feelings towards your "Sweetie"

Love Quotes of the Day:
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila


　
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran


　
He wants you all to Himself, to put His loving, divine arms around you.
Charles Stanley


　
An ideal wife is anyone who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington


　
Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
Mother Teresa
　
　
　

Love Is
 

Footprints in the Sand


One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
other times there were one set of footprints.

This bothered me because I noticed
that during the low periods of my life,
when I was suffering from
anguish, sorrow or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints.

So I said to the Lord,
"You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I have noticed that during
the most trying periods of my life
there have only been one
set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most,
you have not been there for me?"

The Lord replied,
"The times when you have
seen only one set of footprints,
is when I carried you."
Mary Stevenson

THANKS for quoting that sonnet! It's been one of my favorites since I was a lit major. I've quoted it a few wedding receptions over the years. It warmed my heart.

What would I do without google....
 

Language: German [You are mine! I'm yours!] In you shall certainly [be]. You are decided in my heart, Lost is the key agencies - [You always have to be in it!]

THANK YOU for posting the sonnet. Its has been one of my favorites since I was a lit. major. I've quoted it at a few wedding receptions over the years.
It sure brought back memories.

Frum the sooblime to the riddiculuss! (a holler frum the hills)
 

Valentines is red
Jes' like my ol' redneck -
And so's cuzzin Fred
When he's drunker than heck!

I ast them to give me a gift frum ol' Cupid,
Seemed to me like a right nice ideer.
But they laffed and they hollered and sed that was stupid,
And all that I got was this red can of beer.

Oh where, oh where has true luv done gone?
Oh where, oh where can it be?
Though I ain't all that purty I whomp up good cornpone,
But I guess ain't no Valentine I'm gonna see...

Put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
And go out to the car and change the tire.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

Now don't I let you wash the car on Sunday?
Don't I warn you when you're gettin fat?
Ain't I a-gonna take you fishin' with me someday?
Well, a man can't love a woman more than that.
Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?
Don't I take her driving every night?
So, sit here at my feet 'cos I like you when you're sweet,
And you know it ain't feminine to fight.

So, put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
Go out to the car and lift it up and change the tyre.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

I have used the first 4 lines as my Best Man speech for my brother