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Napoleon III Mary Hannay Foott	Lingering fain, As never once in prouder...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nature p g webster	Seeing everything I tried so hard to fain By the lights of hope and faith I do not ponder I am satisfied by what I am today I was never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
New Chum and Old Monarch James Brunton Stephens	all. “Chief,” said I, when all had vanished, “Fain am I thou shouldst relate Why thou roam'st discrowned and banished From thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
New Year's Eve Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The knowledge he would fain Change for forgetfulness, and live His dreaming life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night Victor James Daley	twain Of Death and Life exchange in meeting—fain Are they to pause and greet, yet may not stay. “Never!” “For ever.” This is all they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night Burial In The Forest Duncan Campbell Scott	Fain was he for life, here lies he low: With the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
None, Veil Roberto Suárez Torres	in a deep cold vale, specks fain pious mark like nails, nor beams of all time...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Norembega John Greenleaf Whittier	The baffling marvel calls; I fain would look before I die On Norembega's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Not A Child Algernon Charles Swinburne	Heart, that he would fain appear Not a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Now What Is Love Sir Walter Raleigh	The lass saith no, yet would full fain; And this is Love, as I hear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nuptial Night Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch	Fain for thee wait other brides, other...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode on a nearer prospect of summer hill Richard Harris Barham	O Summer, Summer, Summer Hill, Fain would I gaze and linger still; But see the moon her silver lamp Uprears, the grass is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To The Johns Hopkins University Sidney Lanier	Loose straws of aimless aspiration fain In sheaves of serviceable grain, -- Here, old and new in one, Through nobler cycles round...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To The Spirit Of The Earth In Autumn George Meredith	Among the clusters, rich with song, full fain, But dumb, because that overmastering spell Of rapture held them dumb: then, here and there, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of That So Sweet Imprisonment James Joyce	My soul, dearest, is fain -- - Soft arms that woo me to relent And woo me to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of the Mean and Sure Estate David McKee Wright	Then was she fain to take instead of food Sleep, if she might, her hunger to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of the Mean and Sure Estate Sir Thomas Wyatt	Then was she fain to take instead of food Sleep, if she might, her hunger to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of the Mean and Sure Estate Written to John Poins Sir Thomas Wyatt	Then was she fain to take instead of food Sleep, if she might, her hunger to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of The Wooing Of Halbiorn The Strong William Morris	Fair and fine for a bride is she, And I fain would have her home with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oh, Fly Not, Pleasure Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	For I fain would borrow Thy sad weeds to--morrow To make a mourning for love's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old And Young Francis William Bourdillon	I was fain to climb before the night; So, half-impatient, I answered,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Barnard -- A Monkish Tale Mary Darby Robinson	"For I'm sick of sin, "And would fain begin "To repent me, before I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Pictures In Florence Robert Browning	Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains: One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, Each tinge not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 42: Self-Acquaintance William Cowper	And Discontent would fain prescribe How Thou shalt deal with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart William Cowper	My best desires are faint and few, I fain would strive for more; But when I cry, 'My strength...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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