Database of the Month: Grangers Poetry

Monthly Featured E-Resource: Grangers Poetry

Happy February! Are you looking for the perfect love poem? Try Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, the online resource for thousands of full-text poems including biographical information about the poet. The database is searchable by poet, title, keyword and theme. Searching the word ‘valentine’ in the text, we found,

from Hamlet, IV,v (Ophelia sings)

‘Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,   

All in the morning betime,

And I a maid at your window,

To be your Valentine.’ 

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