Potential Titles: Oath

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A horrid oath and a muttered curse - Lennox Amott "Drink"

Gone to seed oblivion's oath - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Reached only by oaths and curses - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

Thine oath that first did fail - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Change on Change"

That the oath endures the end - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Keeps his oath to sparrows - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"

Sighs, tears, and oaths - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"

In heaven an oath memorial - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"

An oath of towns that set the wild at naught - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"

Shaped for secret oaths - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Afraid to blink under oath - Lam Lai "I, New York"

Remembrance of an April oath - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"

With broken hearts for lime and oaths for sand - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Recall those oaths when passion prayed - H.P. McKnight "Hope--Eternity"

Have broken my name's oath - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"

Swells like an oath - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"

An oath against the roman calendar - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

Lovers' oaths are thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's Song"

By the oath of work - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

For I have sworn deep oaths - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLII"

Straightened and resumed its vegetable oath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"

His royal vows and oaths were all but wind - "The Whore"


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