It seems that some of my posts, related to Impossible love stories, are very appreciated, here is another impossible love story.
The "Evening Star" ("Luceafarul") by Mihai Eminescu (Romanian poet), a 98-stanza-long poem, sets the world record for the Longest Love Poem.
Update 2023
Apparently, there is a new world record that was set in 2017, therefore the published love poem on this page falls behind it.
I am sorry for this, as I am very fond of the following poem, which the internet assured me was the longest love poem ever written when I published this post, back in 2016.
Never mind. It remains in my heart.
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The Legend of the Evening Star ("Luceafarul") is a story about a young princess who prayed to the evening star each night. The evening star falls in love with her and is willing to give up his immortality, but realizes that his pure love for the young girl cannot be sustained in the mortal world.
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Once
on a time, as poets sing
High tales with fancy laden,
Born of a very noble king
There lived a wondrous maiden.
An only child, her kinsfolk boon,
So fair, imagination faints;
As though amidst thestars the
Or Mary amidst the saints.
From 'neath
Her silent way she wended
Each evening to the window-seat
Where Lucifer attended.
And secretly,with
She watched his double race,
Where vessels drew their pathless trail
Across the ocean's face.
And asintent she
Desire was quickly there;
While he who saw her every night
Soon fell in love with her.
And sitting thus with rested head,
Her elbows on the sill,
Her heart by youthful fancy led
Did with deep longing fill.
While he, a brilliant shining spark,
Glowed always yet more clear
Towards the castle tall and dark
Where she would soon appear.
*
*
*
*
Until one night with shower of rays
He slips into her room,
As though a strange and silver haze
Did round about her loom.
And when at last the child to rest
Upon her sofa lies,
He lays her arms across her breast
And closes her soft eyes.
While where his ray on mirror lands
And is upon her couch red rifted,
It falls upon her throat and hands
And on her face uplifted.
A smile is on her lips it seems;
He
For smooth his ray glides midst her dreams
And round her soul assembles.
And while she is in slumber gone
She murmurs through her sighs:
"Come down tome
Fair prince of the clear skies.
Come down, good Lucifer and kind,
O lord of myaspire
And flood my chamber and my mind
With your sweetest fire!"
And Lucifer beams still more bright
To hear her word's emotion;
Then
like
Dives down into the ocean.
And where hisbolt
The sea in whirlpool surges,
Till out of theunfathomed
A handsome youth emerges,
Who, leaping off the fretful wave,
Lightly through her casement passes;
And in his hand he holds a stave
Crowned with a wreath of grasses.
A prince indeed of royal stock,
With heavy hanging golden hair;
A purple winding-sheet his smock,
Hung round his shoulders bare.
A starry glow shines from his eyes,
His cheeks are deathly white;
A lifeless thing in living guise,
A youth born of the night.
"Down from the spheres do I come
Though dreadful the commotion,
My father is the vaulted dome,
My mother is the ocean.
For I have left my realm to keep
Obedience to your command;
Born of the zenith and the deep
Here I before you stand.
O come, fair child of royal birth,
Cast this your world aside,
For Lucifer has flown to earth
To claim you as his bride.
And you will live till time is done
In castles built of sky,
And all the fish will be your own,
And all the birds that fly".
"O
As but an angel prince could be,
But to the course that you desire
I never shall agree.
Strange, as your voice and vesture show,
I live while you are dead;
Your eyes gleam with an icy glow
Which fills my soul with dread."
One day went past, and went past-two,
Then o'er the castle dark,
Fair Lucifer again to view
Shone forth his lustrous spark.
And scarce his beam waved bright above,
Her dreams to him wereborne
Her heart again by aching love
And cruel longing torn.
"Come down, good Lucifer and kind,
O lord of myaspire
And flood my chamber and my mind
With your sweetest fire!"
Now, as he heard her tender cry
Withpain
And lightning flew about the sky,
Which wheeled and rocked about;
Around the earth a lurid glow
Poured like a torrent race,
Till out of its chaotic flow
There grew a human face;
About thehead dark
Girt with a crown of flame,
And through the sun-illumined air
Borne up bytruth he
His arms of rounded marble sheen
Did 'neath
And sad and thoughtful was his mien
And pallid was his brow.
Brighteyes he had that
Of strange chimerical bonds;
And deep they were as passion's spell,
And dark as moonlit ponds.
"Down from the spheres have I flown,
Though terrible my flight;
My father wearsApollo's crown
My mother is the night.
O come, fair child of royal birth,
Cast this your world aside,
For Lucifer has flown to earth
To claim you as his bride.
A starry halo from the skies
About your hair will fall,
And you among the spheres will rise
The proudest of them all."
"O
As but a demon prince could be,
But to the course of your desire
I never shall agree.
You wound me with your crude behest;
I dread what you extol;
Your heavy eyes, as though possessed,
Gleam down into my soul."
"But why should I descend tothee
Far better what I give;
My days are alleternity
Whileyou but
"I would notchosen
Nor carefully my words arrange,
But though with human mouth you speak,
Your speech to me is strange.
Yet if you wish to prove your worth,
That I betroth myself to you,
Well, then come down to me on earth
And be a mortal too."
You ask my endless, life above
To barter for a kiss.
Aye, I will show how my love,
How deep my longing is.
My birthright I will fling aside
To be reborn of sin, and I
Whoto tied
Will that great knot untie."
At which he turned and went away
Midst a cloud ofsombre
To renounce his birthright from that day
For the love of a mortal girl.
......
Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu
This was the first part of the longest love poem ever written.
Here is the second part (click), the page became too slow, had to split it in two.
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High tales with fancy laden,
Born of a very noble king
There lived a wondrous maiden.
An only child, her kinsfolk boon,
So fair, imagination faints;
As though amidst the
Or Mary amidst the saints.
From '
Her silent way she wended
Each evening to the window-seat
Where Lucifer attended.
And secretly,
She watched his double race,
Where vessels drew their pathless trail
Across the ocean's face.
And as
Desire was quickly there;
While he who saw her every night
Soon fell in love with her.
And sitting thus with rested head,
Her elbows on the sill,
Her heart by youthful fancy led
Did with deep longing fill.
While he, a brilliant shining spark,
Glowed always yet more clear
Towards the castle tall and dark
Where she would soon appear.
*
*
*
*
Until one night with shower of rays
He slips into her room,
As though a strange and silver haze
Did round about her loom.
And when at last the child to rest
Upon her sofa lies,
He lays her arms across her breast
And closes her soft eyes.
While where his ray on mirror lands
And is upon her couch red rifted,
It falls upon her throat and hands
And on her face uplifted.
A smile is on her lips it seems;
For smooth his ray glides midst her dreams
And round her soul assembles.
And while she is in slumber gone
She murmurs through her sighs:
"Come down to
Fair prince of the clear skies.
Come down, good Lucifer and kind,
O lord of my
And flood my chamber and my mind
With your sweetest fire!"
And Lucifer beams still more bright
To hear her word's emotion;
Dives down into the ocean.
And where his
The sea in whirlpool surges,
Till out of the
A handsome youth emerges,
Who, leaping off the fretful wave,
Lightly through her casement passes;
And in his hand he holds a stave
Crowned with a wreath of grasses.
A prince indeed of royal stock,
With heavy hanging golden hair;
A purple winding-sheet his smock,
Hung round his shoulders bare.
A starry glow shines from his eyes,
His cheeks are deathly white;
A lifeless thing in living guise,
A youth born of the night.
"Down from the spheres do I come
Though dreadful the commotion,
My father is the vaulted dome,
My mother is the ocean.
For I have left my realm to keep
Obedience to your command;
Born of the zenith and the deep
Here I before you stand.
O come, fair child of royal birth,
Cast this your world aside,
For Lucifer has flown to earth
To claim you as his bride.
And you will live till time is done
In castles built of sky,
And all the fish will be your own,
And all the birds that fly".
"
As but an angel prince could be,
But to the course that you desire
I never shall agree.
Strange, as your voice and vesture show,
I live while you are dead;
Your eyes gleam with an icy glow
Which fills my soul with dread."
One day went past, and went past-two,
Then o'er the castle dark,
Fair Lucifer again to view
Shone forth his lustrous spark.
And scarce his beam waved bright above,
Her dreams to him were
Her heart again by aching love
And cruel longing torn.
"Come down, good Lucifer and kind,
O lord of my
And flood my chamber and my mind
With your sweetest fire!"
Now, as he heard her tender cry
With
And lightning flew about the sky,
Which wheeled and rocked about;
Around the earth a lurid glow
Poured like a torrent race,
Till out of its chaotic flow
There grew a human face;
About the
Girt with a crown of flame,
And through the sun-illumined air
Borne up by
His arms of rounded marble sheen
Did '
And sad and thoughtful was his mien
And pallid was his brow.
Bright
Of strange chimerical bonds;
And deep they were as passion's spell,
And dark as moonlit ponds.
"Down from the spheres have I flown,
Though terrible my flight;
My father wears
My mother is the night.
O come, fair child of royal birth,
Cast this your world aside,
For Lucifer has flown to earth
To claim you as his bride.
A starry halo from the skies
About your hair will fall,
And you among the spheres will rise
The proudest of them all."
"
As but a demon prince could be,
But to the course of your desire
I never shall agree.
You wound me with your crude behest;
I dread what you extol;
Your heavy eyes, as though possessed,
Gleam down into my soul."
"But why should I descend to
Far better what I give;
My days are all
While
"I would not
Nor carefully my words arrange,
But though with human mouth you speak,
Your speech to me is strange.
Yet if you wish to prove your worth,
That I betroth myself to you,
Well, then come down to me on earth
And be a mortal too."
You ask my endless, life above
To barter for a kiss.
Aye, I will show how my love,
How deep my longing is.
My birthright I will fling aside
To be reborn of sin, and I
Who
Will that great knot untie."
At which he turned and went away
Midst a cloud of
To renounce his birthright from that day
For the love of a mortal girl.
......
Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu
This was the first part of the longest love poem ever written.
Here is the second part (click), the page became too slow, had to split it in two.
That long it is.
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