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
Keats, John
Brawne, Fanny, 1800-1865 -- Correspondence; Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Correspondence; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
You fear, sometimes, I do not love you so much as you wish? My
dear Girl I love you ever and ever and without reserve. The
more I have known the more have I lov’d. In every way—even
my jealousies have been agonies of Love, in the hottest fit
I ever had I would have died for you. I have vex’d you too
much. But for Love! Can I help it? You are always new. The
last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the
brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass’d
my window home yesterday, I was fill’d with as much admiration
as if I had then seen you for the first time. You uttered
a half complaint once that I only lov’d your beauty. Have I
nothing else then to love in you but that? Do not I see a heart
naturally furnish’d with wings imprison itself with me? No ill
prospect has been able to turn your thoughts a moment from me.
This perhaps should be as much a subject of sorrow as joy—but I
will not talk of that. Even if you did not love me I could not
help an entire devotion to you: how much more deeply then must
I feel for you knowing you love me. My Mind has been the most
discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too
small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with
complete and undistracted enjoyment—upon no person but you.
When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window:
you always concentrate my whole senses. The anxiety shown about
our Loves in your last note is an immense pleasure to me:
however you must not suffer such speculations to molest you any
more: nor will I any more believe you can have the least pique
against me. Brown is gone out—but here is Mrs. Wylie[42]—when
she is gone I shall be awake for you.—Remembrances to your
Mother.
Your affectionate
J. KEATS.
XXV.
My dear Fanny,
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