Famous Forswear Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Forswear poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous forswear poems. These examples illustrate what a famous forswear poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Daphnis And Chloe

...ent.

At that Why, that Stay my Dear,
His disorder'd Locks he tare;
And with rouling Eyes did glare,
And his cruel Fate forswear.

As the Soul of one scarce dead,
With the shrieks of Friends aghast,
Looks distracted back in hast,
And then streight again is fled.

So did wretched Daphnis look,
Frighting her he loved most.
At the last, this Lovers Ghost
Thus his Leave resolved took.

Are my Hell and Heaven Joyn'd
More to torture him that dies?
Could departure not suffice,
But t...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


Drink wine to root up metaphysic weeds,

...Drink wine to root up metaphysic weeds,
And tangle of the two-and-seventy creeds;
Do not forswear that wondrous alchemy,
'Twill turn to gold, and cure a thousand needs....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

The Reformers

...hold
 Aloof till great occasion rise,
But serve, full-harnessed, as of old,
 The Days that are the Destinies.

He shall forswear and put away
 The idols of his sheltered house;
And to Necessity shall pay
 Unflinching tribute of his vows.

He shall not plead another's act,
 Nor bind him in another's oath
To weigh the Word above the Fact,
 Or make or take excuse for sloth.

The yoke he bore shall press him still,
 And, long-ingrained effort goad
To find, to fasion, and fulfil
 ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Respectable Burgher on The Higher Criticism

...e I must forbear) 
That -- -- did not reappear! . . . 
- Since thus they hint, nor turn a hair, 
All churchgoing will I forswear, 
And sit on Sundays in my chair, 
And read that moderate man Voltaire....Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

The Whip

..., 
The clod will have you next. 

But fear you not the clod, 
Nor ever doubt the grave:
The roses and the sod 
Will not forswear the wave. 
The gift the river gave 
Is now but theirs to cover: 
The mistress and the slave
Are gone now, and the lover. 

You left the two to find 
Their own way to the brink 
Then—shall I call you blind?— 
You chose to plunge and sink.
God knows the gall we drink 
Is not the mead we cry for, 
Nor was it, I should think— 
For you—a thing to die for...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Veteran Sirens

...hey, though others fade and are still fair, 
Defy their fairness and are unsubdued; 
Although they suffer, they may not forswear
The patient ardor of the unpursued. 

Poor flesh, to fight the calendar so long; 
Poor vanity, so quaint and yet so brave; 
Poor folly, so deceived and yet so strong, 
So far from Ninon and so near the grave....Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Womans Constancy

...w
We are not just those persons, which we were?
Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear?
Or, as true deaths, true marriages untie,
So lovers' contracts, images of those,
Bind but till sleep, death's image, them unloose?
 Or, your own end to justify,
For having purposed change, and falsehood, you
Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could
 Dispute, and conquer, if I would,
 Which I abstain to d...Read more of this...
by Donne, John

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