Love's Philosophy

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Love's Philosophy is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1820.

Original text

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Amelia Curran (painter), 1819

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 are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?

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