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A Poet's Sonnet Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell	If I should quit thee, sacrifice, forswear, To what, my art, shall I give thee in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poet's Sonnet Alice Meynell	If I should quit thee, sacrifice, forswear, To what, my art, shall I give thee in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satire, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal John Oldham	55I cannot lie, nor flatter, nor forswear: 56I can't commend a book, or piece of wit, 57(Though a lord were the author) dully writ: 58I'm...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady Samuel Butler	The other, for base gain and pay, Forswear, and perjure by the day; And make th' exposing and retailing Their souls and consciences a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Andromeda Unfettered Muriel Stuart	strength could bid my soul renounce Its claim-forswear its just, predestined right. To what poor shape of folly am I grown, In whom God breathed an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Charms of Precedence - A Tale William Shenstone	Do ye not flatter, lie, forswear, And daily cheat, and weekly pray, And all for this-to lead the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Daphnis And Chloe Andrew Marvell	And his cruel Fate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ends And Means Wallace Dean LaBenne	An empty set of rituals to later...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Girl Graduates William Schwenck Gilbert	As for fashion, they forswear it, So they say, And the circle - they will square it Some fine day; Then the little pigs...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras: Part 2 - Canto II Samuel Butler	And that you are forsworn,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lese-Majesty Alan Scott	Lord, could I ever possibly forswear such rich, waterless, oxygenated...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love's Exchange John Donne	In thee and thine ; none should forswear Except that he Love's minion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Possession Muriel Stuart	Canst thou forswear the nightingale its tune-- Stay the young sea from following his moon-- Bid hyacinth put out...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prehlad Toru Dutt	not,--why, still I never shall my faith forswear, I can but say, be done their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prehlad. Toru Dutt	not,--why, still I never shall my faith forswear, I can but say, be done their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Slaves of Thy Shining Eyes Shams al-Din Hafiz	Are they that e'en the grape's delight...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The arbiter JP.	Mark out the limits set Forswear the place you will not land Isolation the safest bet Keep your counsel close and dark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Curse John Donne	May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorn, Forswear to others, what to her he hath sworn, With fear of missing, shame of getting,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Reformers Rudyard Kipling	He shall forswear and put away The idols of his sheltered house; And to Necessity shall pay Unflinching tribute...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Respectable Burgher on "The Higher Criticism" Thomas Hardy	All churchgoing will I forswear, And sit on Sundays in my chair, And read that moderate man...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Whip Edwin Arlington Robinson	The roses and the sod Will not forswear the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Veteran Sirens Edwin Arlington Robinson	Although they suffer, they may not forswear The patient ardor of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Woman's Constancy John Donne	Of love, and his wrath, any may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wordsworth At Dove Cottage Alfred Austin	To make the calm recluse forswear The garden path, the fire-side chair, To journey with the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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