| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822 |
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| 615. To —— |
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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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