| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | To ——— | | By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | | ONE word is too often profaned | |
| For me to profane it, | |
| One feeling too falsely disdained | |
| 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. | |
| 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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