by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
One word is too often profaned
Language: English
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?
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Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ---", first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John G. Barnett (1802 - 1890), "One word is too often profaned", published 1834 [ tenor ], canzonet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edith A. Bracken , "One word is too often profaned" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellen Dickson (1819 - 1878), as Dolores, "One word is too often profaned", published 1863 [ voice and piano ], London [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881 - 1916), "One word is too often profaned", 1899 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "One word is too often profaned" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "One word is too often profaned", 1946, published 1947 [ voice and piano ], Curwen [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-01-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 90