Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley's Love's Philosophy explores the very essence of the emotion with such imagery that depicts how genius the piece and the writer is. Enjoy!

Love's Philosophy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1803-1822)

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 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 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?

† Jofer