Tuesday, February 13, 2007
8:27 AM

so it's valentines day.. but it just seems like another ordinary day to me.. like for the past 21 years of my life i have never once celebrated valentines day.. i never went out with anyone on valentines day, not even any of my girl friends... anyways, i read the nicest poem the other day..so for all those who out there who are celebrating valentines day.. enjoy...

Sonnets from the Potuguese

16

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile- her look- her way
Of speaking gently- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Niether love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry-
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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