1820
MS Keats 1.77. Presented by Lucius Wilmerding, 1942. |
John Keats. Autograph letter to Fanny Brawne, [March 1820].
The nearer a racer gets to the Goal the more his anxiety becomes so I lingering upon the borders of health feel my impatience increase. Perhaps on your account I have imagined my illness more serious than it is: how horrid was the chance of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms - the difference is amazing Love - Death must come at last; Man must die, as Shallow says; but before that is my fate I feign would try what more pleasures than you have given so sweet a creature as you can give. Let me have another op[p]ortunity of years before me and I will not die without being remember’d.
MS Keats 1.77. Presented by Lucius Wilmerding, 1942.