Hello Friends,
Today’s poem comes to you from an outspoken atheist, proponent of Godwinian free love, and Romantic with a capital R: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
Enjoy.
Ellen
Today’s poem comes to you from an outspoken atheist, proponent of Godwinian free love, and Romantic with a capital R: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
Enjoy.
Ellen
Love’s Philosophy
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 is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?