Loves Philosophy

I.

The Fountains mingle with the

And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law

In one another's being mingle—Why not I with thine?

II.

See the mountains kiss high

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be

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?

Published by Leigh Hunt,

The Indicator,

December 22, 1819.

Reprinted by Mrs.

Shelley,

Posthumous Poems, 1824.

Included in the Harvard manuscript book, where it is headed An Anacreontic, and dated 'January, 1820.' Written by Shelley in a copy of Hunt's Literary Pocket-Book, 1819, and presented to Sophia Stacey,

December 29, 1820.