Valentine's day is the day of love, the day of cherishing emotions, the day of showing passion and the day of expressing sentiment. On this day, couples confess their feelings and commit to a lifetime of togetherness.
Every year, the calendar is marked on February 14 to celebrate Valentine's day with the loved one. While you might say love does not need a day to be celebrated, deep inside your emotions must be waiting for this one single day to arrive.
The celebration of Valentine's day dates back to the Middle Ages when people expressed their love to each other. The popularity of Valentine's day grew so much that people started celebrating it a week before. A week ahead of February 14, the week of love is celebrated as Valentine's week. The week comprises hug day, kiss day, propose day, rose day, teddy day, chocolate day and valentine's day.
While gift exchange is an important part of the celebration, there are several other ways you can celebrate this day of love. It depends on the dynamics of the couple and their likings and dislikings. It is extremely important to give a personal touch to the celebration and not just copy any celebrity’s or friend’s celebration of Valentine’s day. It can be a small poem or even a quote, but make it your own celebration this Valentine’s day.
Here are some selected poems for couples. Share these poems with your favorite one and show them how much they mean to you.
“How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
"First Love Story" by Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
“First Love” by John Clare
I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale,
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.
“Juke Box Love Song” by Langston Hughes
I could take the Harlem night,
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl
“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
"Love One Another" by Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
“Love Is Enough” by William Morris
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter:
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can handle, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
