Love's Philosophy - Original Text

Original Text

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 are all these kissings 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)
  • History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
  • A Philosophical View of Reform (1819-20, published 1920)
  • "A Defence of Poetry" (published poshumously, 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" (published poshumously, 1824)
  • "A Dirge" (published poshumously, 1824)
  • "England in 1819" (published posthumously, 1834)
Long poems
  • Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816)
  • The Revolt of Islam (1818)
  • Prometheus Unbound (1820)
  • Epipsychidion (1821)
  • Adonaïs (1821)
  • Julian and Maddalo (published posthumously, 1824)
  • The Witch of Atlas (published poshumously, 1824)
  • The Triumph of Life (published poshumously, 1824)
  • The Masque of Anarchy (published posthumously, 1832)
Places
  • Keats-Shelley Memorial House
  • Rising Universe
  • Shelley Memorial
People
  • Lord Byron
  • Claire Clairmont
  • William Godwin
  • Thomas Jefferson Hogg
  • John Keats
  • Thomas Medwin
  • Thomas Love Peacock
  • Mary Shelley
  • Percy Florence Shelley
  • Timothy Shelley
  • Edward John Trelawny
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