Bright Star

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 One of the interesting thing about reading old love letters, written before the computer age [before the days of instant-messaging and e-mail] is re- discovering the passion with which they were written. The poet John Keats loved his neighbor Fanny Brawne and wrote brilliant letters of intense longing to her. In the early part of their relationship, he called her his Bright Star. The star was a symbol to Keats of something that was constant and everlasting.          
   "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- 
   Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
   And watching, with eternal lids apart.."

   John Keats studied to be a surgeon,  but  chose poetry over medicine and wrote these words of intense beauty to Fanny:

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Or this:
My sweet girl,Your Letter gave me more delight, than any thing in the world but yourself could do;...
  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 threreof.

Ever yours, my love!
John Keats.