PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792-1822

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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 disdain'd 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?

Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. He was a leading member of a group of visionary poets and writers which included Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and his second wife Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

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