Here is a Valentine’s Day verse from Harriet Monroe’s Valyria and Other Poems (A.C. McClurg & Company, 1892), which she dedicated to the memory of architect John Wellborn Root.

FOR JOHN PAUL

Who sent roses on St. Valentine’s day.

Stay, sweet roses, stay but a day,
Breathe me your souls ere your leaves decay.
That over the air to my valentine
I may waft him a perfume as rich as wine,
That shall charm his desire to some dear repose
As safe and as sweet as thy heart, white rose!