Love's Philosophy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 disdain'd its brother;

And the sunlight claps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea—

What are all these kisses worth,

If thou kiss not me?

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law divine