Love Poems

You may think of Thomas Hardy as a novelist, but you'd be missing his love poems.

Another well-worn link making the rounds today was this article about Thomas Hardy’s love poems to Emma. It’s an emotional story, filled with depth of feeling and love, regret and remorse.

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Click through for the missing love letters.

Well, as I’ve said, I used to do the mail sorting as a marketing assistant for a magazine company. Sometimes, I would get mail that was sent to us by mistake. Since I’m too lazy to return them to the mailman, I would either throw them away or….read them. I kept two interesting love letters that, because of a lazy marketing assistant, did not reach their intended recipients. What if they lost their chance for true love because they didn’t get their lover’s message?

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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

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