Great Love Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVI

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.

A Valentine is nothing like

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. 

A Valentine just hangs around
Waiting to be kissed
Long after special days have passed
And every days are here. 

So one is wise to choose one well
And chocolates to resist.
For in the midst of mania
It's nice to have one near.

Valentine's for lovers and for friends.

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.

Valentines are people

Valentines are people who
Are willing to be flowers,
Letting us enjoy their beauty
Even if for hours.
No Valentine hides from the sun,
Though sometimes lost in light.
If you love them, they just open,
Not unhappy to be woken
Even in the night.

To Earthward
Robert Frost

Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air

That crossed me from sweet things
The flow of -- was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Down hill at dusk?

I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.

I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.

Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.

When stiff and sore and scarred
I take away my hand
From leaning on it hard
In grass and sand,

The hurt is not enough.
I long for weight and strength
To feel the earth as rough
To all my length.

The Valentine Song!

What if everybody sent a Valentine?
What if everybody sent a Valentine?
What if everybody sent a Valentine?
What a great world this would be!

Send your father and your mother Valentines,
Send your sister and your brother Valentines,
Lots of love to one another... Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

Greet the postman on the street with Valentines,
The policeman on the beat with Valentines,
Every fireman that you meet with Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

Send the butcher and the baker Valentines,
Send the movie ticket taker Valentines,
Don't forget the pizza maker! Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

Send your neighbors up and down Valentines!
Everybody in the town... Valentines!
Spread a lot of love around with Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

Presidential delegations... Valentines!
Kings and queens and their relations... Valentines!
Send the whole United Nations Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

Flood the folks on every shore with Valentines!
Let it rain and let it pour... Valentines!
There'd be peace instead of war with Valentines!
What a great world this would be!

What a great world this would be!

Valentines Poem
By Stacy

We have something special that belongs to you and me-
A deeper understanding that we share instinctively-
A trusting kind of friendship other people rarely share-
A way of always knowing when the other needs us there-
We have something special, and no matter what we do-
Whether talking, laughing, sharing, something wonderful shines through-
It's a special kind of love on which the two of us depend-
It's the love between the two of us who've become the best of friends!!

Updated 4th February...