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The Maid Of Ocram, Or, Lord Gregory John Clare	And fain would he have loosed the key All for his true love's sake, But Lord Gregory then was fast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier	Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face The vast sweet visage of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Martyr Victor James Daley	Said—“Here I fain would...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Meeting Friedrich Schiller	The words I sang, I'd fain once more invoke; Within, I felt a new-awakened power, That each emotion of my bosom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Meeting of Wallace and Bruce on the Banks of the Carron Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Whose haughty gesture fain would seek To veil the thoughts that blanch his cheek, Feels his reluctant mind controlled ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. James Beattie	Stung with disease and stupified with spleen; Fain to implore the aid of Flattery's screen, Even from thyself thy loathsome heart to hide...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mirror Of Diana Mathilde Blind	With hopeless love's impassioned cries Seems fain to sing till song must kill Himself with one tumultuous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Moon In Silver Glory Shone John Newton	Fain would my thankful heart and lips Unite in praise to thee; And meditate on thy eclipse, In...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Morning Star George William Russell	But I fain would shun the burning terrors of the mid-day...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mystery Paul Laurence Dunbar	I am — a few days hence I shall not be; I fain would look before And after, but can neither do; some Power Or lack of power says 'no' to all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Naked Goddess James Thomson	All seem hearkening fixed and fain: Silence, and the lifted light Of countless faces gazing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nevers of Poetry Charles Harpur	And never to be graceless be you fain, Till to be graceful you have tried in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nightingale La Fontaine	Sighs, smiles, false tears, they'll fain employ An artless lover to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nobleman's Wedding William Allingham	He spoke loud and low, and listen'd full fain; He call'd on her waiting-maids round to assist her But nothing could bring the lost breath...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Noon Quatrains Charles Cotton	That half this World are fain to fly The danger of his burning...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Obliterate Tomb Thomas Hardy	And though the one-time foe was fain to right it He still...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Ghost Thomas Lovell Beddoes	For the bodiless ghost would fain have wept Over the maiden that lay so young 'Mong the thistles and toadstools so hoary; And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Olive Sydney Thompson Dobell	Brother, who being men are fain To profit by the blessed loss That quivers overhead while we At the foot of the cross-mast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Orange-Peel In The Gutter Mathilde Blind	wall and iron spike, Cold, cruel, as if fain 'twould like To run some beggar through and through, And guard the door from him and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Owl And The Lark Alfred Austin	O souls perplexed by hood and cowl, Fain would you find a teacher, Consult the lark and not the owl, The poet, not the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pariah - Legend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	In her inmost, deepest being; Fain she'd linger o'er the vision, Then repels it,--it returneth,-- And, perplex'd, she bends...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Parson's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	I would full fain at Christe's reverence Do you pleasance lawful, as I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Peacemaker Harriet Monroe	But a wise friend, a peacemaker who fain Would marry loud today with shy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pelican Island James Montgomery	The aspiring fish that fain would be a bird, On long, light wings, that flung a diamond-shower Of dew-drops round...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pilgrims Algernon Charles Swinburne	--Are ye not weary and faint not by the way, Seeing night by night devoured of day by day, Seeing hour by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)