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The Abencerrage : Canto I. - continuation 1 Felicia Dorothea Hemans	His champions round him have not vainly bled; But when the twilight spread her shadowy veil, And his last warriors found each effort...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The African Chief William Cullen Bryant	Vainly, but well, that chief had fought, He was a captive now, Yet pride, that fortune humbles not,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book II. Canto III. Coventry Patmore	And there, amidst the glittering showers, Gazed vainly for the glorious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Arab's Farewell To His Horse Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	And vainly shalt thou arch thy neck, thy master's hand to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant La Fontaine	Would vainly hope to gain a soft...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Babes In The Bush Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	Sad parents seek vainly and weep: There are lights 'mid the thistles, and cries of despair: A rifle cracks loudly,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bay Of Seven Islands John Greenleaf Whittier	Answer not vainly, nor in vain the moan Of the South Breaker prophesying...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bechuana Boy Thomas Pringle	Oft, in despair, for drink and food We vainly cried: they heeded not, But with sharp lash the captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Beggar Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov	Thus I prayed vainly for your love, With bitter tears, pine and fervor, Thus my best senses, that have thrived,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Blind Man’s Bride Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	The blind man vainly yearn'd to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Boy And the Angel Robert Browning	an's cell ``And set thee here; I did not well. ``Vainly I left my angel-sphere, ``Vain was thy dream of many a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bride Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	The gaze that vainly seeks to trace Lost feelings beaming on a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Burden of Time Frederick George Scott	The wild sea searches vainly round the land For those proud fleets my arm has swept away; Vainly the wind along the desert...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Calm Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	And while you, brother, are vainly endeavoring at the races, To watch the impossible nags you back run into places; And while...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canon Of Aughrim Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Vainly, like hares, they lay in the forms they had fashioned to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Captain and the Mermaids William Schwenck Gilbert	And sounded loud recalls; But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Captive's Dream Anne Brontë	And the dear name I vainly strove to speak, Died in a voiceless whisper on my tongue, Then I awoke, and lo it was a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cavalier's March to London Thomas Babbington Macaulay	Shall curse his blunted shears, And vainly pinch, and scrape, and tear, Around their leathern...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Chase of Ages Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Are my lives lived vainly,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Child Of The Islands - Autumn Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	land Of Bruce and Wallace; land where, vainly brave, Ill-fated Stuart made his final stand, Ere yet the shivered sword fell hopeless from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The children of the Mist Frank Dalby Davison	Year by year the clouds have kissed, Vainly are those white arms feeling For the children of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cock-Fighter's Garland William Cowper	That struggled vainly for a vent, He tottered, reeled, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Complaint Of Ceres Friedrich Schiller	Since all the earth I wandered over, And vainly, Titan, tasked thy beams The loved--the lost one--to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Conqueror's Sleep Felicia Dorothea Hemans	And for his birthright vainly still implore...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Creole Girl; Or, The Physician’s Story Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	For vainly would the heart accept its lot And rouse its strength to bear avow'd contempt; Scorn will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)