Love's Philosophy

"Love's Philosophy" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1820.

Original text

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Love's Philosophy

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Amelia Curran (painter), 1819

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?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Plays	The Cenci (1819) Hellas (1822)

Fiction	Zastrozzi (1810) St. Irvyne (1811)

Non-fiction	"The Necessity of Atheism" (1811) "A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" (1812) "A Vindication of Natural Diet" (1813) History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) A Philosophical View of Reform (1819-20, published 1920) "A Defence of Poetry" (published posthumously, 1840)

Poetry collections	Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810)

Short poems	"The Devil's Walk" (1812) "Mutability" (1816) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817) "Ozymandias" (1818) "Love's Philosophy" (1819) "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) "To a Skylark" (1820) "The Cloud" (1820) "One Word is Too Often Profaned" (1822) "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (1824) "A Dirge" (1824) "England in 1819" (1834)

Long poems	Queen Mab (1813) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816) The Revolt of Islam (1818) Prometheus Unbound (1820) Epipsychidion (1821) Adonaïs (1821) Julian and Maddalo (1824) The Witch of Atlas (1824) The Triumph of Life (1824) The Masque of Anarchy (1832)

Places	Keats-Shelley Memorial House Rising Universe Shelley's Cottage Shelley Memorial

People	Lord Byron Claire Clairmont William Godwin (father-in-law) Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Keats Thomas Medwin Thomas Love Peacock Mary Shelley (wife) Percy Florence Shelley (son) Timothy Shelley (father) Edward John Trelawny

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.