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TO — - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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TO —

    • 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.
    • 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?