By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Date: 7 November 1997

Love's Philosophy

The 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?