The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/Love's Philosophy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I.

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?

II.

See the mountains kiss high heaven,

And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdained it's brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?