Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote his most famous romantic love poems while living in Italy, and tragically drowned just shy of his 30th birthday. A contemporary of John Keats and Lord Byron, he was married to novelist Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein."
"Love's Philosophy"
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;
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?
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