as do the birds. Granson pledges his own undying love to a mysterious lady in his “Complaint to Saint Valentine.” There was ...

“He had Italian friends who told him that it was the feast of St. Valentine, the first bishop of Genoa,” Kelly said. “And so he picked that day as the day on which all the birds returned to ...

It was partly influenced by a belief that birds began mating in mid-February-a fact noted by poets even as early as Geoffrey Chaucer. “For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird ...

How very absurd and medieval on his part to send me a valentine! A real valentine with, I have no doubt, birds and hearts and cupids and true lover's knots--and--arrows on it. I do not think I ...

Firstly, there were a few eponymous Saint Valentines associated with ... in the Parliament of Fowls (1382), he mentions that Valentine’s Day was when birds chose their mates.