Roses are Red
Roses are Red bright with love ---
Violets are Blue
Carnations are Sweet
And so are you.
And so are they
That send you this
And when we meet
We'll have a kiss.
Author Unknown
To-morrow is St. Valentine's
Day
To-morrow is Saint
Valentine's Day
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your windo
To be your Valentine.
William Shakespeare from
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
Going Steady
Valentine, O, Valentine,
I'll be your love and you'll be
mine.
We'll care for each other,
rain or fine,
and in 90 years we'll be 99.
Ian Serraillier
An Angry Valentine
If you won't be my Valentine
I'll scream, I'll yell, I'll bite.
I'll cry aloud, I'll start to
whine
If you won't be my Valentine.
I'll frown and fret, I'll mope
and pine, and
It will serve you right ---
If you won't be my Valentine
I'll scream, I'll Yell, I'll Bite!
Myra Cohn Livingston
Plenty of Love
Plenty of love,
Tons of kisses,
Hope some day,
To be your Mrs.
Author Unknown
A Valentine Birthday
Again today
We draw the heart around
your name Our red
crayons Not to mention
The red cellophane
the paper white as drifts Wrapper, which
outside the door. Looked through,
Shows a marvelous
Snowfall on your birthday! Scarlet world.
Each Valerie Worth
tumbling flake snipped
into lace by the scissoring He Sent His Love a Valentine
wind He sent his love a Valentine;
His love did not reply.
Valentines! Valentines! We never dare to care to sign
Valentines! These things, I wonder why.
Barbara Juster Esbensen David McCord
Love is like a Cabbage Valentine
My love is like a cabbage If all the whole world's
Divided into two, taxicabs
The leaves I give to others, Came running to my call,
The heart I give to you. I'd park right by your door
Author Unknown and honk
In the handsomest cab of all.
Veggie Valentine
You may not "carrot" all for We'd drive to Spain, Maine or
me Spokane!
The way I care for you. Could anything be sweeter
You may "turnip" your nose Than ticking off a million
When I plead with you miles
But if your "heart" should Upon a metal meter?
X. J. Kennedy
"beet" with mine
Forever "lettuce" hope
There is no reason in the The Kangaroo's Courtship
world
Why we two "Cantaloupe." "Oh will you be my wallaby?"
Author Unknown Asked Mr. Kangaroo.
"For we could find so very
Conversation Hearts many
Such meek Jumping things to do.
Little tokens I have a pocket two feet wide
Sugary white, And deep inside,
Shy green, prom My dear, you'd ride---
Yellow and pink. Oh, come and be my bouncing
But spiced with bride,
Mottoes: SURE My Valentine, my side-by-side
THING, OH BOY--- I am in love with you."
Each one like Jane Yolen
A reckless wink.
Valerie Worth
Valentine Chocolates
Ordinary candy,
Perhaps--but
Boxed in a ruby
Heart, it grows
Exotic, mysterious;