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The Winter’s Walk Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Nay, like mean wolves, from whelp-hood vainly nurst, Tore at the easy hand that fed them...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wisdom Of Merlyn Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	till the heart grows sick, while the preacher vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Woes of Bill Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	And I gazed around me vainly as a voice exclaimed quite plainly: 'Strike me up a blessed wattle if it ain't a blessed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Theirs John Greenleaf Whittier	His last brave word Not vainly France to all her boundaries...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
They Loved One Another Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	one of them is gone, And by that vainly cheerful hearth poor Edward sits...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity John Keble	Vainly they tried the deeps to sound E'en of their own prophetic thought, When of Christ crucified...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
This Little Bag Jane Austen	To be not vainly made-- For, if you should a needle want It...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thought Of A Briton On The Subjugation Of Switzerland William Wordsworth	Thou fought'st against him; but hast vainly striven: Thou from thy Alpine holds at length art driven, Where not a torrent murmurs heard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thoughts in a Garden Andrew Marvell	HOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thoughts On Jesus Christ's Decent Into Hell Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Attempts to fly, but vain is flight; Vainly she hastes to 'scape...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Threnody Ralph Waldo Emerson	do these eyes recall The school-march, each day's festival, When every morn my bosom glowed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To ------, John Greenleaf Whittier	Thou, methinks, art vainly seeking Truth, and peace, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To a Friend Amy Lowell	Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To a Friend William Shenstone	Till having vainly toil'd to gain it, He sees your flying pen obtain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Lost Love Ernest Christopher Dowson	Betwixt our separate ways; For vainly my heart prays, Hope droops her head and dies; I see the sad, tired answer in your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Poet That Died Young Edna St. Vincent Millay	Vainly, in these iron days, Strives the poet in your praise, Minstrel, by whose singing side...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant	Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong As, darkly seen against...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Word-Warrior Ambrose Bierce	A soldier's sabre vainly tries To cleave a spiritual...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Young Lady, On Her Translation Of The Story Of Phoebus And Daphne, From Ovid Thomas Parnell	In Daphne Beauty coily fled, While vainly Wit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Alex. Smith, The 'Glasgow Poet,' On His Sonnet To 'Fame' George Meredith	Not vainly doth the earnest voice of man Call for the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Angelo Mai, Count Giacomo Leopardi	Or does Fate vainly with man's will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Ashes Left Of Want by Jessica Ni Leacai Jessie Ní Leacaí	No visitors vainly seek my sentiments, only...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Chloe Eugene Field	That, seeking vainly for her mother, Hears danger in each breath...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Count Carlo Pepoli Count Giacomo Leopardi	Who have, no less than we, and vainly, too, Desire for happiness; but they, intent On that which is essential to their life,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To England Alfred Austin	Not wholly shorn of strength, but vainly strong; Weaned from thy fame by a too happy home, Scanning the ridges of thy teeming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)