Love's Philosophy

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819

The fountains mingle with the riverAnd the rivers with the Ocean,The winds of Heaven mix for everWith a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single; 5All things by a law divineIn one spirit meet and mingle.Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high HeavenAnd the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven 11If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earthAnd the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me? 16

From The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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