The fountains mingle with the River

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]1 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 [are all these kissings]1 worth
  If thou kiss not me?

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Emil Gustave Ahnell (1925-) , "Love's philosophy"
by Vivian Loretta Alvstad , "Love's philosophy", published 1951.
by David Arditti (1964-) , "Love's philosophy", 1985, first performed 1994, from Three Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, no. 1.
by John Harold Ashe (1938-) , "Love's philosophy", published 1947.
by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847-1907) , "Love's philosophy", note: MS can be found in the BBC library
by William Ernest Ball , "Love's entreaty", published 1919.
by Edwin Masterman Barber , "Love's philosophy", published 1893.
by Harold Bauer (1873-1951) , "The fountains mingle", published c1902. [high voice, piano]
by Hugh Poynter Bell (1872-1961) , "Love's philosophy", published 1948.
by George John Bennett (1863-1930) , "Love's philosophy", published 1886, from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 3.
by Ernest Blake , "Love's philosophy", published 1908 [voice, piano], from Ten Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley for voice and piano, no. 3
by Daisy Booth , "Love's philosophy", published 1928.
by Alice Borton (fl. 1890) , "Love's philosophy", 1887?, first performed 1887?
by Charles Braun (1868-?) , "Love's philosophy", published 1900, from Six Songs, no. 1
by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865-1928) , "Love's philosophy" [ATBB]
by Frank Charles Butcher (1882-?) , "Love's philosophy", op. 3 no. 1, published 1908. [chorus for male voices]
by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1856-1943) , "Nothing in the world is single", published 1924.
by Colin Macleod Campbell (1890-1953) , "Love's philosophy", published 1934.
by Colin Macleod Campbell (1890-1953) , "Love's philosophy", op. 173, published 1955 [SSA, piano], from Three Shelley Songs
by Cyril Stanley Christopher (1897-?) , "Love's philosophy", published 1937, from Five Songs
by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879-1934) , "Love's philosophy", published 1902.
by Gwendolyn Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998) , "Love's philosophy"
by Frederick Delius (1862-1934) , "Love's philosophy", 1891, from Three Songs, the words by Shelley, no. 2.
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Love's philosophy", op. 55 (Six Songs) no. 4.
by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) , "The fountains mingle with the River", published 1871.
by Paavo Heininen (1938-) , "Love's philosophy", op. 19 no. 2 (1973), first performed 1979 [voice and piano], from Love's Philosophy, no. 2.
by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) , "Love's Philosophy", op. 370 (1984). [voice and piano]
by Robert Manno (1944-) , "Love's philosophy" [satb chorus]
by Thomas Pasatieri (1945-) , "Love's philosophy", 2003 [voice and piano], from A rustling of angels, no. 6.
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Love's philosophy", op. 3 no. 1.

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