Greeting Cards with poems & Gifts Endure on Feb. 14
Posted: Saturday, July 23, 2011
by Jessie Eldora
gotmydigital.com
Valentine's Day History and Customs.
Crinolines may have given way to cocktail dresses, but sentiment has remained much the same over the centuries when it comes to celebrating love on Valentine's Day.
Origins of Valentines Day
Many quaint historical tales surround the origin of St. Valentine's Day. Some attribute the tradition of celebrating love to a Roman priest in the 3rd century who was martyred and later canonized.
Most enduring of them all, however, has been the practice of giving Valentine's Day greeting cards. It's a custom that attracts everyone from the school child to young lovers and weathered couples. All labour over the most appropriate words to convey their love.
Traditional Valentines Day Cards
A Valentine card dated 1931 from a Vancouver shop bears the following words:
The love light shining in your eyes
Bespeaks a love that never dies;
Oh tell me true, dear heart of mine,
That you will be my Valentine.
Another card, cracked and yellowed, from almost 100 years ago, reads:
My heart is thine, My Valentine.
My arms would round thee fondly twine.
Till lost in love's impassioned kiss,
My soul could know no greater bliss.
It used to be costly to purchase a Valentine's Day card. Those who complain that everything is commercialized nowadays may be right, but not nearly as much so as if they'd lived a couple of hundred years ago. Then a young man had to dig deep into his pockets for the privilege of enchanting a lady on St. Valentine's Day.
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