Poems with rhymes of swear

And, yet, by flowers and earth I swear
You're neat and pure and sweet and fair.

Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year ?

As any one could swear.
'What does it mean?' I asked a wight
Who knelt apart in prayer.

Speaks common words with a blushful air,
Hears bold words, unreproving;
But her silence says - what she never will swear -

O Lord, Thou kens what zeal I bear,
When drinkers drink, an' swearers swear,

Rogue and robber and fool, I swear —
Love was the plunder that brought him there;

"No! for by this glowing flame I swear,
Hymen hath himself propitious shown:
Let us to my fathers house repair,

I had been singin' to them to keep 'em quiet there,
For the lower deck is the dangerousest, requirin' constant care,
An' give to me as the strongest man, though used to drink and swear.

Thoroughly honest and game, I'll swear,
Only a little the worse for wear;

This life cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were!

--"But, Mistress Damon--I can swear
Thy goodman John is dead!
And soon th'lt hear their feet who bear

For all you used to swear,
An' leave me, as you can,
My certain shame to bear?

Then doff'd my shoe, and by my troth I swear,
Therein I spy'd this yellow frizzled hair,

I’ll never see a ghost, I swear,
But I will find the cause.”
I turned to see if it was there,

And the trades he'd make, 'll I jest de-clare,
Was enough to make a preacher swear!

To the shearers sweltering there,
And ‘the ladies’ means in the shearing shed:
‘Don’t cut ’em too bad. Don’t swear.’

With this old place, and truthful' swear--
Like Gineral Tom Nelson does--,
'They hain't no city anywhere

Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there

Our two dollar easy chair-
Can't help it at all, I got to go
Down on de cellar an' swear!

Hand-cuffed'--'at's what he wuz, I swear!--
Yit smilin,' like he hadn't bin
Away at all! And when we ast him where