Bartlett's Words for the Wedding by Brett Fletcher Lauer

Author:Brett Fletcher Lauer [LAUER, BRETT FLETCHER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REF019000
ISBN: 9780759516441
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2007-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

JOHN KEATS

English (1795–1821)

from A Letter to Fanny Brawne

July 8, 1819

My sweet girl,

Your letter gave me more delight than anything in the world but yourself could do; indeed I am almost astonished that any absent one should have that luxurious power over my senses which I feel. Even when I am not thinking of you I receive your influence and a tenderer nature stealing upon me. All my thoughts, my unhappiest days and nights have, I find, not at all cured me of my love of beauty, but made it so intense that I am miserable that you are not with me: or rather breathe in that dull sort of patience that cannot be called life. I never knew before what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, ’twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures. . . . Do understand me, my love, in this. I have so much of you in my heart that I must turn mentor when I see a chance of harm befalling you. I would never see anything but pleasure in your eyes, love on your lips, and happiness in your steps.

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