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LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY.

    • 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 another’s being 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?