Valentine Poems

‘I love you' - can you say the same three golden words with more feelings? Yes you can! Valentine poems are the best way of expressing romantic messages. Your special day calls for special expressions and what can be more passionate then, love poems on valentine.

History behind the magical day

Valentine's Day is a day of expressing eternal love to your friends and families. It is not just exchanging love notes with your partner but, with your all your near and dear ones. A legend is behind this beautiful day which says about St. Valentine. Since, he lost his life in spreading the message of love to the people on 14th February - the Valentine's Day is celebrated on this day in his commemoration. People still continue to give gifts, cards and love messages to their loved ones.

The story of valentine poems stems like this - Saint Valentine was a priest who served during the reign of Emperor Claudius. St. Valentine defied a marriage law and was jailed for it. Legend tells that Saint left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter and signed it - ‘From Your Valentine', before his execution. Since, then the tradition of romantic poems on valentine began. Love notes and romantic messages are also part of this tradition. Very lately, in the 1800s came the custom of exchanging valentine cards in which sentimental valentine love poems were written.

More on Valentine poems

Another version of Valentine's Day celebrations tells about St. Valentine's miracles. It is documented that he healed the blind daughter of the Emperor and secretly married couples who were in love. It was forbidden that time to get married like that. And therefore, in the honor of the saint people observe Valentine's Day on 14th of February every year.

Sending of Valentine Day cards became popular in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. Some of the most traditional love symbols used then was red roses, hearts and cupids.

In history it is given that sending Valentine's Day Poems on this day has originated from the capture of Duke of Orleans. This happened during the Battle of Agincourt. The Emperor sent rhyming lover letters from his prison cell to his wife in the Tower of London. This continued and people started exchanging their innermost desires through poems.

When you receive any romantic poem on Valentine's Day you feel very inspired. You can experience a sense of belongingness and bond with the person. Here is one of the very famous Valentine poems for you -

A Valentine to My Wife
- Eugene Field

Accept, dear girl, this little token,
And if between the lines you seek,
You'll find the love I've often spoken
The love my dying lips shall speak.

Our little ones are making merry
O'er am'rous ditties rhymed in jest,
But in these words (though awkwardvery)
The genuine article's expressed.

You are as fair and sweet and tender,
Dear brown-eyed little sweetheart mine,
As when, a callow youth and slender,
I asked to be your Valentine.

What though these years of ours be fleeting?
What though the years of youth be flown?
I'll mock old Tempus with repeating,
"I love my love and her alone!"

And when I fall before his reaping,
And when my stuttering speech is dumb,
Think not my love is dead or sleeping,
But that it waits for you to come.

So take, dear love, this little token,
And if there speaks in any line
The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,
Say, will you kiss your Valentine?