Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Eternal Poems
Channel: Eternal Poems
Date: 07/07/2021

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 is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

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AUTHOR:
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on December 4, 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England. He was one of the major English Romantic Poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death.

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ATTRIBUTION:
Percy Bysshe Shelley's portrait from ESM, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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