Potential Titles: Swear/Swore

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To swear by the debts of the guilty - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Swearing there is no room there for us all - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Mark the knave who swears he's free - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

And rivaled a parrot for swearing - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"

And swear to the journey ahead - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"


To his teeth I swore - Hall Caine "Graih my Chree (Love of my Heart)"

In spite of all our sworn fidelity - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"

But was I sober when I swore? - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Witnesses waiting to be sworn - Joan Larkin "My Father's Tie Rack"

Having sworn by Styx tremendous - George Meredith "Phaethon"

With sworn enemies and innocents - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Against having sworn to be kind - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

But was I sober when I swore? - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

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

As fierce and sworn a Foe - John Spateman "War"

Their first fealty sworn to beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "On an Early Death"


Nature forswears antiquity - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Profiles forsworn to Donatello - Mina Loy "The Black Virginity"


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