To -- [One word is too often profaned]

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Title:     To -- [One word is too often profaned]
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley [More Titles by Shelley]

1.
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
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.

2.
I can give not what men call love,
But wilt thou accept not
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
From the sphere of our sorrow?

[The end]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem: To -- (2)

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