The Valentine + 

Lady with thine eyes of beauty + 

Rivaling cerulean flowers, + 

Where the love-beams seem to linger, + 

Throughout youth’s bright, sunny hours. + 

With thy smile of witching sweetness + 

Like the magnet’s mystic art, + 

Charming oft enchanting oft’ner, + 

Drawing to thee every heart. + 

But, fair lady, I’ll no longer + 

Linger thus o’er nature’s mould, + 

’Tis thy spirit’s beauty charms me, + 

More than mines of Peru’s gold. + 

Like an exile who hath wandered + 

Far from kindred and from home, + 

Pants and longs once more to greet them, + 

Never more on earth to roam;⁠— + 

Like the tempest-tossed, the weary, + 

Who of earth ne’er had their part, + 

Fain would land their stricken spirits + 

Where heart answers unto heart;⁠— + 

So this bosom when overflowing + 

With some latent, deadly grief, + 

Loves to revel in the music + 

Of thy voice to find relief. + 

And when joys do hover ’round me, + 

Weaving chaplets rich and bright, + 

I’d away from pleasures turn me + 

To my beautiful “Starlight.” + 

Lady! could I seal thy future, + 

All of bliss and love ’twould be; + 

And when time with us is ended, + 

Spend eternity with thee. + 