A husband is a huge strength for any wife. Now that the world has become so fast and the conventional role of every person is changing, it is very important to keep reminding your better half how loved and important he is. This valentine’s day, shower your husband with something more important than the material gifts; show him how much he is loved. Show him your emotions through some of the best poems:
A Glimpse
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
(Walt Whitman)
Another Valentine
Today we are obliged to be romantic
And think of yet another valentine.
We know the rules and we are both pedantic:
Today’s the day we have to be romantic.
Our love is old and sure, not new and frantic.
You know I’m yours and I know you are mine.
And saying that has made me feel romantic,
My dearest love, my darling valentine.
(Wendy Cope)
The Good Morrow
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
(John Donne)
My Love, My Valentine
Becoming your wife, a year ago today;
Who could have dreamed it would be this way.
Taking the vow, from this way forward …. Not knowing
Loving you forever would be such a reward.
We stood and looked into each other’s eyes;
Spoke our true vows as husband and wife.
In sickness and in health, till death do us apart,
Soon came that test from the very start.
Though we’ve gone through a lot in our first year,
Our love has grown stronger through every dropped tear.
(Amy Collins)
The Greatness of Your Character
As I think on the things that I so admire about you,
I admire:
Your undoubted love for God,
Your ability to learn,
How quickly you can change a negative attribute in yourself into a positive,
The right choices that you make consistently and swiftly
Without a fleeting thought of the wrong choices as options,
How you are so tenderly moved by the suffering of another,
How your sympathy changes into empathy and you become the fulfiller,
The great teacher and the coach that you have been to myself and to others,
The humility that quietly adorns you when attacked unjustly
Or when you have been misunderstood,
How you show the way by example to our children and grandchildren
With patience, kindness and love,
And most of all, your unwavering love for me,
And so much more.
(Lena Marie Fuller)
I Love You
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
I Just Want to Tell You
Dear You,
I just want to tell you,
I love you with all my heart.
I wish for us to be together,
Never shall we be apart.
I just want to tell you,
You put the smile on my face.
I want to be by your side,
I don’t want to be any other place.
I just want to tell you,
You mean so much to me.
I see you as nothing less than the world,
And that I want you to see.
I just want to tell you,
I wouldn’t be able to live without you.
Without the comfort you give,
There’s nothing I could do.
I just want to tell you,
I thank you for being there.
You’ve always given me a shoulder to lean on,
And you always care.
I just want to tell you,
I think of you every moment of the day.
And how much I love you,
Words could never even say.
I just want to tell you,
I love you with all my heart.
I wish for us to be together,
Never shall we be apart.
Sonnet 116
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.
(William Shakespeare)
A Glimpse
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
(Walt Whitman)
Words Are Not Enough
No words could ever tell you,
No action could express
The way I feel about you,
With you, my life is blessed.
You’re the light in my tunnel,
You are my pot of gold.
You are the strength that gets me through
When despair has taken hold.
You’re my once in a lifetime,
You make my life complete.
You are my blue ribbon
In the shadow of defeat.
There’s nothing I could ever say,
And nothing I could do
Just to let you know how much
Love is in my heart for you.
(Denese H. Boyette)
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