A Romantic Love Letter written by Edgar Allen Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman.

Edgar Allen Poe the American poet and writer famous for his unusual stories almost all of which had a strange twist to their ending had a lot of problems in his romantic relationships. His first wife Virginia who he married when she was only 13 (after falsifying her age and claiming she was 21) died shortly afterwards.

Another engagement was destroyed by the womens mother who thought that a relationship with Edgar Allen Poe was not a suitable match for her daughter. Many thought these problems were the reason he wrote so many stories about beautiful money dying.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written October 1, 1848

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 it was then - on that 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 past 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 shuddering sixth sense, vaguely compounded of fear, ecstatic happiness, and a wild, inexplicable sentiment that resembled nothing so nearly as the consciousness of guilt.

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Edgar Allen Poe, writing to Sarah Helen Whitman another American poet. Edgar's wife Virginia had died the previous year from tubercolous (or consumption as it was then known) and the distraught Poe wrote a large number of letters to Sarah Whitman. Sarah and he never formed what we would call a serious romantic relationship.

He had just a year to live, having been destroyed by alcohol and depression.