Poems with rhymes of forswear

- Since thus they hint, nor turn a hair,
All churchgoing will I forswear,

To make the calm recluse forswear
The garden path, the fire-side chair,

And with rouling Eyes did glare,
And his cruel Fate forswear.

In thee and thine ; none should forswear
Except that he Love's minion were.

We are not just those persons which we were?
Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
Of love, and his wrath, any may forswear?

Besides, how insincere you are!
Do ye not flatter, lie, forswear,

But they, though others fade and are still fair,
Defy their fairness and are unsubdued;
Although they suffer, they may not forswear

That diadems of might and empire bear;
Drunk with the wine that from thy red lip flows,
Are they that e'en the grape's delight forswear.

54 'I live in London? What should I do there?
55I cannot lie, nor flatter, nor forswear:

The gods, perhaps, may please to spare
My tender years; if not,--why, still
I never shall my faith forswear,

The gods, perhaps, may please to spare
My tender years; if not,--why, still
I never shall my faith forswear,

Staunch religiosity with truth cannot compare.
An empty set of rituals to later forswear.