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The Mother’s Last Watch Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Thou vainly guarded treasure of her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mourner George Crabbe	Neatly she dress'd, not vainly seem'd t' expect Pity for grief, or pardon for neglect; But when her wearied parents sunk...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mystic Veil Henry Clay Work	When my song, in lonely notes ascending, Vainly bids my sadden'd soul rejoin...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nativity William Cowper	The abundant foliage of whose gloomy shades, Vainly the sun in all its power invades; Where warbled airs of sprightly birds resound, Whose...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The New Convert William Cowper	And said, "Lest Israel vainly boast, My arm procured me this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Night Vigil Jerry Lovelady	The wild rooster sentry vainly tries to wake the napping...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nightingale La Fontaine	To dull with subtlety to sleep The Argus vainly set to keep In safety their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nightingale's Nest John Clare	And vainly did I many hours employ : All seemed as hidden as a thought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Burying-Ground John Greenleaf Whittier	The doubts we vainly seek to solve, The truths we know, are one; The known and nameless stars revolve Around...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Oleomargarine Man Ambrose Bierce	The churn to copy vainly tried; A smile so like the dawn of doom That all the field was palled in gloom, And all the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Origin Of Flattery Charlotte Smith	What studied speeches vainly try to tell; And more pathetic silence, which imparts Infectious tenderness to feeling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Owl And The Lark Alfred Austin	So I, who long have vainly groped For wisdom, leaned and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Parting (2) Anne Brontë	Still hoping for her lord's return, But vainly she may hope and fear And vainly watch and weep and mourn; She may wait him till her hairs...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Passionate Pilgrim William Shakespeare	Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although I know my years be past the best, I smiling credit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Past Letitia Elizabeth Landon	It hangs upon the life that loved So vainly and so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pastoral, The Elegy, The Ode, And The Epigram Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux	In rage, throws by his rural instrument, And vainly, when disordered thoughts abound, Amidst the eclogue makes the trumpet sound; Pan flies...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Picture Of Sappho Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	With Fame's cold light around thee vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pin Ann Taylor	'Twas vainly now, with eye and hand, She did to search begin; There was not onenot one, the band Of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Planting Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	'Who art thou, child, vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poem of Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali Gitanjali	My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly struggles for a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poet's Dead Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov	And thus he died - for vengeance vainly thirsting Secretly vexed by false hopes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poets Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Searching the volume of her mysteries, And vainly question the fixed eyes of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poppet Doll Eugene Osowski	And baser still, He falsely lived, And vainly he would lie About the nature of his heart, And look me in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Princess Elizabeth, when a prisoner at Woodstock, 1554 William Shenstone	How can they of humble station Vainly blame the powers above Or accuse the dispensation Which allows them all to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pupil In Magic Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Spirits raised by me Vainly would I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)