Love’s Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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?
Of note
In the second season of Twin Peaks, the villain Windom Earle uses fragments of this poem in his schemes. The British detective series Lewis later named an episode after one of its lines, "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea."
Poetry Tale: The Heart That Would Not Burn
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TEXT PROVENANCE · First published 22 December 1819 in The Indicator · Text from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Thomas Hutchinson, 1914), via Wikisource revision 14207101.
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