In the briefest terms, the poem is saying that everything is connected; everything mingles with everything else. Nothing stands alone without a relation to something else. Like "no man is an island" and no flower is not dependent on a bee, and no bee is not dependent on a hive, and no hive is not dependent on a queen, and no queen is not dependent on her workers and on and on and on. And the same goes for non-living things: the spray from the sea mixes and mingles with air and on and on again.
And the poem makes this point in many ways and then ends in a sort of coy little plea to the poet's loved one:
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
So, he is saying: if all these things in the natural world are connected to all these other things... like moonlight kisses the sea, then surely the two of them should do the same, and she should kiss he :-)
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