Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine?
Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day


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 --
Dear, may I be your Valentine?





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