| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | A Valentine | | By Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919) |
| | | WHAT shall I send my love to-day, | |
| When all the woods attune to love, | |
| And I would show the lark and dove | |
| That I can love as well as they?… | |
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| I’ll send a kiss, for that would be | 5 |
| The quickest sent, the lightest borne; | |
| And well I know to-morrow morn | |
| She’ll send it back again to me. | |
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| Go, happy winds! ah, do not stay | |
| Enamour’d of my lady’s cheek, | 10 |
| But hasten home, and I’ll bespeak | |
| Your services another day! | | | | |
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