Love's Philosophy

by Percy Bysshe Shelly


Fountains mingle with the river,
     
    And the rivers with the ocean;

The winds of heaven mix forever
          
          With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;
     
     All things by a law divine

In another's being mingle--
          
          Why not I with thine?


See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
     
     And the waves clasp one another;

No sister flower could be forgiven
          
          If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth,
     
     And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--

What are all these kissings worth,
          
       If thou kiss not me?

From "The Poetry Archives"


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