| Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875. |
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| P. B. Shelley |
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| CCIII. "One word is too often profaned" |
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| ONE word is too often profaned | |
| For me to profane it, | |
| One feeling too falsely disdain'd | |
| For thee to disdain it. | |
| One hope is too like despair | 5 |
| For prudence to smother, | |
| And pity from thee more dear | |
| Than that from another. | |
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| I can give not what men call love; | |
| But wilt thou accept not | 10 |
| The worship the heart lifts above | |
| And the Heavens reject not: | |
| The desire of the moth for the star, | |
| Of the night for the morrow, | |
| The devotion to something afar | 15 |
| From the sphere of our sorrow? | |
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