LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

——by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the Ocean,

The winds of Heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion,

Nothing in the world is single;

All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle.

Why not I with thine?——

See the mountains kiss high Heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth

And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this sweet work worth

If thou kiss not me?