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A Christmas Prayer (from the trenches) Cyril Winterbotham	In hardened hearts we fain would greet The Babe at Christmas born, But lo, He comes with pierced feet, Wearing a crown...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Coin of Trajan in Australia James Brunton Stephens	Of majesty made fiat of his breath; And when all fain of some imagined suit I lifted suppliant hands for life or death, And caught his glance of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Commuted Sentence Ambrose Bierce	To feel some pious promptings to the right, And fain would turn your faces to the light, Eternity seems all too long a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Conversation At Dawn Thomas Hardy	" She held her peace, as if fain deny She would indeed For his pleasure's sake, but could lip no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dead March William Cosmo Monkhouse	Weary and sick of soil and toil, and hungry and fain for skies Far from the reach of wingless men, and not to be scal’d with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death-Parting Dante Gabriel Rossetti	) O love, of my death my life is fain; (The willows wave on the water-way,) Your cheek and mine are cold in the rain, But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman. Sidney Lanier	Nay, still my trembling hands are fain, are fain Cut the good letters though they lap...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialog Algernon Charles Swinburne	Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Algernon Charles Swinburne	DEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda Andrew Marvell	Dorinda I'm sick, I'm sick, and fain would dye: Convinc't me now, that this is true, By bidding, with mee, all adieu I cannot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	) Ah Youth, ah Youth, but I would fain See thy sweet foolish face...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill	How stern must be the fare, My feet are ever fain to be Upon the journey...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Florida Ghost. Sidney Lanier	The sail seemed fain to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Florida Sunday. Sidney Lanier	Like that faint agate film, far down descried, Restraining suns in sudden thoughtful eyes Which flashed but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months Phillis Wheatley	'Thee to our arms, and we with joy receive, 'We fain would clasp the Phantom to our breast, 'The Phantom flies, and leaves the soul...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Girl's Day Dream And Its Fulfilment. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Such is the music I fain would hear, All other sounds but tire mine...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Girl’s Day Dream And Its Fulfilment Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Such is the music I fain would hear, All other sounds but tire mine...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Grammarian's Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin Robert Browning	Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast, Ay, nor feel...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Historical Problem James Brunton Stephens	The war-worn hero fain had put the glittering prize aside, But Duty called with trumpet-tone and would not be denied,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A History of the Lyre Letitia Elizabeth Landon	I fain would trace Its brightness and its blackness; and these lines Are consecrate to annals such...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty Edmund Spenser	Do kindle love in high-conceited sprights; I fain to tell the things that I behold, But feel my wits to fail, and tongue to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Jacobite's Exile Algernon Charles Swinburne	The burn rins blithe and fain: There's nought wi' me I wadna gie To look thereon...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Judgment In Heaven Francis Thompson	too: The hallowed harpers were fain to frown * on the strange thing come 'mid their sacred crew, Only the singer that was earth *...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lair At Noon. John Clare	I fain had slept, but flies would buzz around; I fain had looked calmly on the scene, But the sweet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Late Good Night Robert Fuller Murray	And ere my head the pillows meet, My lids are fain themselves to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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