In Honor of February and Valentine's Day

And of my buying The Random House Treasury of Favorite Love Poems for work.....


Invitation to Love


Come when the nights are bright with stars
Or come when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or come in the day,
Come, O love, whene'er you may,
And you are welcome, welcome.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love.
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it to rest,
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
Come when my heart is full of grief
Or when my heart is merry;
Come with the falling of the leaf
Or with the redd'ning cherry.
Come when the year's first blossom blows,
Come when the summer gleams and glows
Come with the winter's drifting snows,
And you are welcome, welcome

Paul Laurence Dunbar