PB Shelley read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.

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Love's Philosophy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)

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?

First aired: 21 January 2008

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