Poems ✍️

  23.04.2026
  11


Author: Sylvia Spencer

The Modern Valentine

This child had a Valentine,
This strange ungracious thing.
It really pleased her little heart,
and made her voice sing.
She had a stream of boyfriends,
most of them she strung along.
When one of them got serious,
she said to him be gone.
Her Valentines cards were many,
they were the best in the Land.
They must have cost a tidy penny,
but she didn't care a dam.
This pleased her little heart,
and made her voice sing,
To her, these boys were just her toys,
a new discovered thing.
Then one day, A Valentines day
The game was up, and over
This did not please her little heart
She was seduced, by the Gypsy Rover
He promised her the world,
and all his worthy goods.
Then when she went to marry him,
He had vanished from the woods.
This child had a Valentine,
A beautifull bouncing boy
It really pleased her little heart,
and she sang a song of joy.
No more was she a child,
This strange ungracious thing,
Who now brings up a child,
without a wedding ring.




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