Love Letters

I saw Bright Star last week and it was one of the most beautiful yet sad movies I have ever seen. Therefore, I highly recommend it! Its about the poet John Keats and his relationship with Fanny Browne - aka the Bright Star. Here is the poem that inspired the movie:

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--

No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

- John Keats