adition goes on or with
flowers, with heart-shaped candies, with lacy valentines whose frills and
furbelows hiding the initials of the sender, we honor the good priest who
disobeyed Claudius the Cruel.
Valentine's Day Poetry
LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS
a Sonnet by William Shakepeare (1564 -
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.
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee ? Let me count the
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life !--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
by Daniel O'Connell
If sweethearts were sweethearts always,
Whether as maid or wife,
Not a drop would be half as pleasant
In the mingle of draught of life.
But the sweetheart has smiles and blushes
When the wife has frowns and sighs,
And the wife's have a wrathful glitter
For the glow of the sweetheart's eyes.
If lovers were lovers always,
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for a future of Eden
The joys of this checkered life?
But husbands grow grave and silent,
And care on the anxious brow
Oft replaces the sunshine that perished
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still:
Whose voice, as of old, can charm him;
Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill;
Who has plucked the rose to find ever
Its beauty and fragrance increase,
As the flush of passion is mellowed
In love's unmeasured peace;
Who sees in the step a lightness;
Who finds in the form a grace;
Who reads an unaltered brightness
In the witchery of the face,
Undimmed and unchanged.
Ah, happy Is he crowned with such a life!
Who drinks the wife pledging the sweetheart,
And toasts in the sweetheart the wife!
Valentine's Day Candy Recipes
Valentine Day Hot
Cinnamon Red Candy
3 1/2 c Sugar
1 c White Karo Syrup
1 c Boiling Water
Powdered Sugar (how ever much -it takes)
1 ts Red Food Coloring
1 ts Cinnamin Oil(not -extract)
Sprinkle a liberal layer of powdered
sugar onto 2 cookie sheets, (cover well to keep candy from sticking) Cook
sugar, Karo and water to 290 F. Add cinnamon oil and food color. Be VERY
careful of the fumes.
MIX WELL and pour evenly(and slowly) over sugared pans. Spread candy carefully.
WORK QUICKLY. Allow to cool. Sprinkle powdered sugar over top of candy. Crack
into pieces and enjoy.
Yield: 99 pieces
4 - 3-oz. chocolate bars; --2 semisweet, 1 milk, 1 white chocolate
1/2 c Crushed hard striped peppermint candies
Melt the 3 kinds of chocolate in 3
separate bowls. Stir half of the crushed candy into the semisweet chocolate.
Reserve a bit for sprinkling; stir the remainder into the milk and white
Drop teaspoons of the semisweet onto a parchment-lined tray. Top with 1 dollop
each of the milk and white chocolates. Sprinkle with crushed candy. Let
Day English Toffee
1 c Sugar
3/4 c Corn syrup; light brown
3/4 c Cream; thin
1/8 ts Salt
Cook, stir until sugar is dissolved. Cook
until firm ball in cold water or 244F. Add 1 1/2 T. butter and 1/2 t. vanilla.
Pour in thin layer on greased slab. While warm, mark in squares. Wrap in paper
1/2 c Coarsely chopped pecans
1/2 c Butter