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John Vain	Karolina Vainius	Never in vain
Ryan Girdvainis	The name is one you want to use in vain	Vain and Vanity
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The Distress'd Travellers; or, Labour in Vain William Cowper	I. I sing of a journey to Clifton, We would have perform'd if we could, Without cart or barrow to lift on Poor Mary and me through the mud; Slee,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Martial Courage Of A Day Is Vain William Wordsworth	THE martial courage of a day is vain, An empty noise of death the battle's roar, If vital hope be wanting to restore, Or fortitude be wanting to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Swan - Vain Pleasures George Moses Horton	The Swan which boasted mid the tide, Whose nest was guarded by the wave, Floated for pleasure till she died, And sunk beneath the flood to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vain King Henry Van Dyke	In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered in his crown ----- Lord of rich lands and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vain Pursuit of Acceptance Mawphniang Napoleon	We dissipate prodigious amounts of energy In seeking validation from our fellow men A primal urge to escape predation From our forebears in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vain Question Ada Cambridge	Why should we court the storms that rave and rend, Safe at our household hearth? Why, starved and naked, without home or friend, Unknowing whence we...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vain Spell Edith Nesbit	THE house sleeps dark and the moon wakes white, The fields are alight with dew; 'Oh, will you not come to me, Love, to-night? I have waited the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Vain Lady George Gordon Lord Byron	Ah! heedless girl! why thus disclose What ne'er was meant for other ears: Why thus destroy thine own repose And dig the source of future...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain And Careless Robert Graves	Lady, lovely lady, Careless and gay! Once when a beggar called She gave her child...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain and Vanity Jennifer Brana	We live in a world that is so vain Looking at yourself in a mirror with a camera flash Commenting on others like you don’t have a past Liking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Death Archibald Thomas Strong	ALL the first night she might not weep But watched till morning came, And when she slept at dawn, she heard The dead man call her name. ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Gratuities Edwin Arlington Robinson	Never was there a man much uglier In eyes of other women, or more grim: "The Lord has filled her chalice to the brim, So let us pray she's a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Hope Ernest Christopher Dowson	Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say, Though late it be, though lily-time be past, Though all the summer skies be overcast, Haply I will go down...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Venture Robert William Service	To have a business of my own With toil and tears, I wore my fingers to the bone For weary years. With stoic heart, for sordid gold ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Wits and Eyes Henry Vaughan	VAIN wits and eyes Leave, and be wise : Abuse not, shun not holy fire, But with true tears wash off your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vain Words Franklin P. Adams	Humble, surely, mine ambition; It is merely to construct Some occasion or condition When I may say...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wait in vain Mazloom Gill	One hit one with big stone, In this way one hurt one, Now one wating one call help, One has died not call...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain John Keats	I behold thee flippant, vain, Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies; Without that modest softening that enhances The downcast eye,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dying in vain angela battais	Machine guns roaring down the fieldway, genocide, sex trafficking and other family members of my being, dead everywhere, raping everywhere,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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