Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdain'd
For thee to disdain it.
One hope too like dispair
For prudence to smother,

I can give not what men call love:
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And heaven rejects not:
The desire of the moth for the star,
The devotion of something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?

The king ...
like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts, and lives
Just as his father did; the unconquered powers
Of precedent and custom interpose
Between a king and virtue.