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Mementos. Charlotte Bronte	By Seine's, or Rhine's, or Arno's flow; Fain would I know if distance renders Relief or comfort to her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mercury And The Elephant Anne Kingsmill Finch	The Messenger, who's still in haste, Wou'd fain have bow'd, and so have past; When up arose th' unweildy Brute, And wou'd repeat a late...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mimnermus in Church William Johnson Cory	So sweet, I fain would breathe it still; Your chilly stars I can forgo, This warm kind world is all I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Miss Mischievous Robert William Service	To roguishness is fain; To guard that laughter-loving brat Is quite a strain; But when she tires of prank and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modest Wit, A Selleck Osborn	"Sir, by your leave, I fain would know Your father's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mooni Henry Kendall	Soul of mine from sin abhorrent Fain would hide by flashing current Like a sister of the torrent, Far away by Mooni’s...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mother's Treasures Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	I hold them as a sacred trust; I fain would hide them in my heart, Safe from tarnish of moth and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song Muriel Stuart	Has been repulsed when he fain would be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mrs. Smith Frederick Locker-Lampson	" For answer I was fain to sink To what we all would say and think Were Beauty present: "Don't mention such a simple...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Music Henry Van Dyke	That swells, and sinks, and faints, and falls, till all is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mute Discourse James Brunton Stephens	” We rail at silence, and would fain disturb The duly ordered course of signless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Epitaph Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	And when I rise to make reply I fain would droop a modest eye And by my halting, speech imply It is my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Father He Was A Fisherman Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall	'What is the grief you fain would tell When your eyes are turned on me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Fore-Elders William Barnes	How fain I now would walk the floor Within their mossy porch's bow, Or linger by their church's door,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Friend Khalil Gibran	the stars--and I fain would not have thee hear or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Friend has fled Shams al-Din Hafiz	Fain had I laid an ambush for her soul, She saw and vanished, and the timid foal, Good Fortune,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My God! O let me call Thee mine! Anne Brontë	My trembling soul would fain be Thine, My feeble faith still clings to Thee, My feeble faith still clings to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean Jonathan Swift	Where'er you appear; 'That silly old puss Would fain be like us: What a figure she made In her tarnish'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Native Isle. Mary Gardiner Horsford	The skies for burdened hearts and faint A code of Faith prepare; What tempest ever left the Heaven Without a blue spot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My November Guest Robert Frost	She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted grey Is silver now...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Star Robert Browning	Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Napoleon Victor Marie Hugo	The eye that from thy presence fain would stry Shuns thee in vain; thy mighty shadow thrown Rests on all pictures of the living...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
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)