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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts — John Shaqi

Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscriptsKeats, John

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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

Name: Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
Author: Keats, John

Keats, John

Brawne, Fanny, 1800-1865 -- Correspondence; Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Correspondence; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

richness, the bloom, the full form, the enchantment of love
    after my own heart. So let me speak of your Beauty, though to
    my own endangering; if you could be so cruel to me as to try
    elsewhere its Power. You say you are afraid I shall think you
    do not love me—in saying this you make me ache the more to be
    near you. I am at the diligent use of my faculties here, I do
    not pass a day without sprawling some blank verse or tagging
    some rhymes; and here I must confess, that (since I am on that
    subject) I love you the more in that I believe you have liked
    me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women
    whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to
    be given away by a Novel. I have seen your Comet, and only
    wish it was a sign that poor Rice would get well whose illness
    makes him rather a melancholy companion: and the more so as so
    to conquer his feelings and hide them from me, with a forc’d
    Pun. I kiss’d your writing over in the hope you had indulg’d me
    by leaving a trace of honey. What was your dream? Tell it me
    and I will tell you the interpretation thereof.

                       Ever yours, my love!

                                                        JOHN KEATS.

    Do not accuse me of delay—we have not here an opportunity of
    sending letters every day. Write speedily.


III.

                                                      Sunday Night.

                                   [_Postmark_, 27 July, 1819.[27]]

    My sweet Girl,

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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

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