The text of this poem could not be published because of Copyright laws. Ted Hughes is a tool who closed the oven door on a greater poet's head. I love this poem. If you enjoyed it, then you might also like my poems 'When I Wake Up Every Morning' and 'So Many Times'. That full stop shouldn't be there indeed. But I think it somehow underlines the words about their love, marks them out. Without the first line the whole verse becomes senseless abracadabra. So it's quite reasonable to make them noticeable. Any cruelty here consists of commenting on the poet rather than the poem, and nobody commits another person's suicide. More than that, I have been unable to get this poem out of my mind, the agony and the wonder of pure chemistry. Who has not had a relationship like this? On one hand the agony is immense but the ecstasy more so, such that you will accept any amount of toxicity, ignoring good sense for years or even unto death. tenderly violent and breathtaking - like love and life.