Be my Valentine, for I Each day have thought of you. My whole life couldn't manage what Your ready smile can do, Vanquishing my loneliness As though all light were new. Let me be your Valentine Even as you're mine, Needing what I have to give That each might each define In friendship and in harmony, Now you, now I the melody, Each helping each to shine.

Be my Valentine, my love, As I will be for you, And we will love the whole day long, And love our whole lives through.

A Valentine is nothing like A chocolate or a rose. For in a week these shall be gone, But Valentines remain. If love were always sweet to tongue Or fragrant to the nose, Each day would be like Valentine's, And we would go insane.

Whose gift this is you cannot know. My heart is in your keeping though. You will not mind my writing here To tell you that I love you so. I know that you must think it queer For me to love and not come near But linger by some frozen lake This most romantic time of year. I sometimes give my head a shake And ask if there is some mistake. It's lonely out here 'mid the sweep Of bitter wind and icy flake. My love for you is dark and deep, But it's a promise I will keep As from afar I watch and weep, As from afar I watch and weep.

Happy Valentine, my love! All my love is yours. Praised be love that brings us home, Pilgrims to these shores. Yearnings here find harborage; Vanities, sly smiles. All that righteous anger rends, Love here reconciles. Even in the darkness where No bitterness finds rest, Thoughts of you are like a dawn Intent on happiness. Nor would I have so light a heart Except that I am blessed!

I wish you were my Valentine Though I may not be yours, And I may, in my ignorance, Be speaking to closed doors. I have no inkling of your heart, No hint what you might say; But when I think of you the sun Will just not go away. There is in you a loveliness That makes my darkness shine, And so I'll wait, if wait I must, To be your Valentine.

I miss you terribly this day of love, Miss you with a wound that stabs and aches. I see the love around me, and it takes So much strength simply just to move. Soon, soon, my love, my sexy babe, this waiting will be done. You and I will have what we desire. On days like this we'll sit beside the fire, Undoing all the pain of days long gone.

The day of love requires a companion, But I find myself at this time all alone. Words of sweet affection fill the morning Like bells outside the windows of my room. I don't know why I don't have someone with me. I've loved and been loved through the restless years. The mysteries of love I hold within me Are a darkness unrelieved by moon and stars. And yet I feel more love than I have ever Felt within the circle of a kiss. Love need not be a passion or a fever, Nor does it need a hand for its caress. Love does not require a companion. It doesn't need an object or a home. It flies above the ecstasy of morning And fills the universe inside my room.

You taught me how to love you by The way that you loved me; And by your unseen sustenance, To see what you could see. You gave to me through who you were The gift of what I am. Your pride in me is now my pride; Your faith, my caravan. Your life does not conclude with death, Nor will it end with mine, For all the lives I touch, you touch, And so on through all time.

Your love is like the Arizona sun: Always there, no matter what I do. Bathed in light, I feel my love for you, But words are gone before I have begun. I don't know why I find it hard to say The things that rest so deeply in my heart. It seems almost impossible to start, As though they're too ungainly to display. I cherish you and what you feel for me. I'm lucky that I have you for a honey. I love you with a love that's sweet and calm, And vast, like some unending inner sea. You're the one I'm with when I'm alone; You're the place within my heart that's home.

You were my love and my friend, Which was unusual. Somehow our characters still blend: Your wisdom and my will. I turned, and you were there for me; I spoke, you understood. I felt cared for, but also free; You loved, and I was good. I'm fortunate that I was born To love someone just like you; I love you still. Though you far away, You live in what I do.

Valentine's Day Is a wonderful way To make "I love you" Easy to say.

Valentine's for mothers, too -- A time to celebrate Love in all its symphony, Each gift of fertile fate. No pasture is more rich in grass; The sea is not so full; In heaven all the stars are not Near so plentiful, Each mother's heart to fill.

Valentine's for lovers and for friends. All my love goes out to you this day! Love is something different from desire: Even, silent, peaceful as the sky. Nor is love interested in means or ends. There are no selfish needs that it must weigh. Instead, love's plenitude itself inspires, Needing neither cause nor reason why. Each day my thoughts enchanted with you lie.

You are my heart, my hope, my help, The passion that is me, The whole of which I am a part, My peace, my ecstasy. You are my future, present, past, My ship, my sail, my ocean, The wind that brings me home again, The home for every motion. You live within me, yet I am Without you all alone. With you I am full of light; Without you I am stone. Is this foolish? Yes, perhaps, But also it is true. I think of life as something I Can spend with only you. Ah, my love! Love longs for such Sweet celebrants as this! Love is a burden and a joy, Slavery and bliss. This day of love come love with me, Come sing with me my song. Come be my Valentine, and I Will love you my life long, my love, Will love you my life long.