615: Love Letter to Fanny Brawne
"Love Letter to Fanny Brawne"
John Keats
i have no limits now to my love.
i have been astonished that men
could die martyrs for religion--
love is my religion
i could die for you.
my creed is love & you are its only tenet.
my love has made me selfish.
i cannot exist without you.
i am forgetful of everything
but seeing you again.
my life seems to stop there;
i see no further. you have absorb'd me.
you have ravish'd me away
by a power i cannot resist;
& yet i could resist till i saw you;
& even since i have seen you i have
endeavored often to reason against
the reasons of my love.
i can do that no more--
the pain would be too great.
my love is selfish.
i cannot breathe without you.
The lines in the poem are taken from his letter written on October 13th, 1819. Keats did not actually write the poem with those stanzas (it was a letter and had proper punctuation and so forth), and I have no idea who broke it up into lines and stanzas, but I do like it.
John Keats
i have no limits now to my love.
i have been astonished that men
could die martyrs for religion--
love is my religion
i could die for you.
my creed is love & you are its only tenet.
my love has made me selfish.
i cannot exist without you.
i am forgetful of everything
but seeing you again.
my life seems to stop there;
i see no further. you have absorb'd me.
you have ravish'd me away
by a power i cannot resist;
& yet i could resist till i saw you;
& even since i have seen you i have
endeavored often to reason against
the reasons of my love.
i can do that no more--
the pain would be too great.
my love is selfish.
i cannot breathe without you.
The lines in the poem are taken from his letter written on October 13th, 1819. Keats did not actually write the poem with those stanzas (it was a letter and had proper punctuation and so forth), and I have no idea who broke it up into lines and stanzas, but I do like it.