Heart Songs

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1> HEART SONGS</h1> <h2> BY<br/> JEAN BLEWETT.<br/> </h2> <h2><SPAN name="WOOING_HIS_VALENTINE" id="WOOING_HIS_VALENTINE"></SPAN>Wooing His Valentine</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">I</span>F I could speak in phrases fine,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Full sweet the words that I would say<br/></span> <span class="i0">To woo you for my valentine<br/></span> <span class="i2">Upon this February day.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But when I strive to tell you all,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The charms I see in your dear face,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A dumbness on me seems to fall&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">O, sweetheart, let me crave your grace!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I fain would say your eyes of blue,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Like violets to me appear;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shy blossoms, filled with heaven’s dew,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That throw their sweetness far and near.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">How tender are your lips of red!<br/></span> <span class="i2">How like a rose each velvet cheek!<br/></span> <span class="i0">How bright the gold upon your head&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">All this I’d say, if I could speak.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">How warm your blushes come and go!<br/></span> <span class="i2">How maidenly your air and mien!<br/></span> <span class="i0">How pure the glances you bestow&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Wilt be my Valentine, O Queen?<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_010" id="page_010"></SPAN>{10}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The angels walking at your side,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Methinks have lent their charms to you,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For in the world so big and wide,<br/></span> <span class="i2">There is not one so good and true.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If I had but the gift of speech,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your beauty and your grace to prove,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then might I find a way to reach<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your heart, and all its wealth of love.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then, sweetheart, take the good intent&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Truth has no need of phrases fine&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Repay what long ago I lent,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And be to-day my Valentine.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"> <ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable." title="" /></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_011" id="page_011"></SPAN>{11}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />