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1、史上最伟大的十封英文情书情书的的伟大不在辞藻华美,而在情真意切。下面辑录的十篇情书,是英国网民投票选出的十大经典之作1. Johnny Cash wishes wife June Carter Cash a happy 65th birthday (1994)Happy Birthday Princess,We get old and get use to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritat
2、e each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realise how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. Youre the object of my desire,
3、the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.2. Winston Churchill tells wife Clementine Churchill of his undying love (1935)My darling Clemmie, you wrote some words very dear to me, about my having enriched your life. I cannot tell you what pleasure this gave me, because I always fee
4、l so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love. What it has been to me to live all these years in your heart and companionship no phrases can convey.Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms a
5、nd stresses of so many eventful and, to millions, tragic and terrible years?With tender love from your devoted,W.Winston Churchill first met Clementine Hozier in 1904, but it wasnt until their second meeting in April of 1908 that their romance began. After a four-month courtship, Winston proposed to
6、 Clementine on August 11, 1908. They were married one month later at Saint Margarets Church, Westminster, in London onSeptember 12, 1908.Their marriage was a lasting and happy one but they also had fiery arguments. Clementine was a determined, dignified, loyal, sympathetic and yet also challenging p
7、artner. She was the critic Winston heeded above all others. During their fifty-six year marriage, Winston and Clementine wrote warmly to one another whenever they were apart. They even wrote love notes back and forth to each other while living in the same house. Their letters and notes often ended w
8、ith drawings illustrating their pet names for each other. He was her pug (a breed of dog) and she was his cat.3. John Keats tells next door neighbour Fanny Brawne he cannot live without her (1819)Recipient:Fanny Brawne (1800-1865) was first Keatss neighbor and later his fiance. The eldest child of a
9、 widowed mother, she at first perplexed and exasperated the poet. They fell in love, though Keatss friends were against the match.Summary:Keatss letters to Fanny Brawne are among the most famous love letters ever written. As next door neighbors, they exchanged numerous short notes, and occasionally
10、more passionate ones. None of Fannys letters to Keats survive. From his, however, it seems he was often unsettled by her behavior and uncertain of her affection. His illness brought them closer; when he left for Rome, they were engaged and deeply in love.My dearest Girl,This moment I have set myself
11、 to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my Mind for ever so short a time. Upon my Soul I can think of nothing else The time is passed when I had power to advise and warn you against
12、the unpromising morning of my Life My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again my Life seems to stop there I see no further. You have absorbd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving I should be exquisitely
13、 miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you. My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love You note came in just here I cannot be happier away from you T is richer than an Argosy of Pearles. Do no
14、t threat me even in jest. I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion I have shudderd at it I shudder no more I could be martyrd for my Religion Love is my religion I could die for that I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet You have ravishd me away by a
15、Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often “to reason against the reasons of my Love.” I can do that no more the pain would be too great My Love is selfish I cannot breathe without you.Yours for everJohn Keats4. Ernest Heming
16、way professes his love to Marlene Dietrich (1951)Hemingway to Dietrich, Sept 26, 1951: I cant say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home. Nor too many things. But we were always cheerful and jokers together.5. Napoleon Bonaparte sends his love to Josephine de Beauharnais (1796)Marmirolo, July 17, 1796I have your letter, my ad