Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
9 May, 2019
Famous Love Letters: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Dearest– I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks, there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
You are a Poem.
Of what sort, then? Epic?
Mercy on me, no! A s
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Famous Love Letters: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Dearest– I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks, there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
You are a Poem.
Of what sort, then? Epic?
Mercy on me, no! A sonnet?
No; for that is too labored and artificial.
You are a sort of sweet, simple, gay, pathetic ballad, which Nature is singing, sometimes with tears, sometimes with smiles, and sometimes with intermingled smiles and tears. Less