Celebrity
Love Letters
You
want to put your feelings into words, to express what your heart
has no trouble showing. Where do you start? You might just take
the lead from some of history's most famous love letters, inspiring
words that are as beautiful today as in the romantic time when
they were written.
We'll
feature a continually changing array of celebrity love letters
on this page, words that can inspire you to write a truly beautiful
love letter of your own!
This
love letter was written from English naval officer Horatio Nelson
to his lover Lady Emma Hamilton in 1800 (excuse the historic spelling
and grammar...we wanted to pass along Horatio's lovely words exactly
as he wrote them!)
In
one of my dreams I though I was at a large table You was not
present, Sitting between a Princess who I detest and another.
They both tried to seduce me and the first wanted to take those
liberties with me which no woman inthis world but yourself ever
did. The consequence was I knocked her down and in the moment
of bustle you came in and taking me in your embrace wispered
I love nothing but you My Nelson. I kissed you fervently and
we enjoy'd the height of love.
And
this lovely letter was written from American writer Edgar Allen
Poe to poet Sarah Helen Whitman in 1848. Its heartfelt words were
a far cry from the scary stories and poems for which Edgar Allen
Poe is famous!
I
cannot better explain to you what I felt than by saying that
your unknown heart seemed to pass into my bosom--there to dwell
forever--while mine, I thought, was translated into your own.
From that hour, I loved you. Yes, I now feel that was then--on
the evening of sweet dreams--that the very first dawn of human
love burst upon the icy Night of my spirit. Since that period
I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half
of delight, half of anxiety...for years your name never passed
my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all
that was uttered in my presence respecting you. The merest whisper
that concerned you awoke in me a shuttering sixth sense, vaguely
compounded of fear, ecstatic happiness, and in a wild, inexplicable
sentiment that resembled nothing so nearly as the consciousness
of guilt.
