When it comes to love letter, first name that comes in my mind is John Keats.  Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne are among the most famous love letters ever written in the history. Fanny Brawne (1800-1865) was first Keats's neighbor and later on his fiancée. They exchanged copious of short notes and occasionally more passionate ones. I am going to share one of his letters written on 13 October 1819 and it goes like: 25 College Street My dearest Girl, This moment I ...

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their ...

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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, - That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and ...

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