Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | III. Love’s Beginnings | | Love’s Philosophy | | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | | 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; | 5 |
| All things by a law divine | |
| In one another’s being mingle:— | |
| Why not I with thine? | |
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| See! the mountains kiss high heaven, | |
| And the waves clasp one another; | 10 |
| 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, | 15 |
| If thou kiss not me? | | | | |
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