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Ninth Sunday After Trinity John Keble	That I should stand where they have vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson Phillis Wheatley	'Why vainly fancy your petitions...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nurse Green Charles Lamb	But if no endeavour your terrors can smother, If vainly against apprehension you strive, Come, bury your fears in the arms of your mother; My...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman	) Of eyes that vainly crave the light--of the objects mean--of the struggle ever renew'd; Of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Occasional Address Charlotte Smith	' And vainly tries his sorrows to divert, While Goneril or Regan --wash his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode for New Year's Day Clive Staples Lewis	It’s vainly we are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode On Lord Hay's BirthDay James Beattie	The mariner, not vainly brave, Combats the storm, and rides the wave, To rest at last on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode On Venice George Gordon Lord Byron	At which he vainly catches, flit and gleam, Till the last rattle chokes the strangled scream, And all is ice...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Adversity John Gay	And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Health, 1730 William Shenstone	Where mineral fountains vainly bear Thy boasted name, and titles fair, Why scorns thy foot to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte George Gordon Lord Byron	Than high Philosophy can preach, And vainly preach 'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To Superstition. Samuel Rogers	With choral chantings vainly to aspire, Beyond this nether sphere, on Rapture's wing of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Vanity Mary Darby Robinson	Reeking and mangled with the pointed dart, Vainly he vauntsnor heeds the smart, Tho' pitying NATURE weeps with tears of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode Written On The First Of January Robert Southey	Ah vainly does the Pilgrim, whose long road Leads o'er the barren mountain's storm-vext height, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Dog Tray Stephen C. Foster	Although he cannot speak, I'll vainly, vainly seek A better friend than old dog...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Town Types No. 5 - Mr Mead The Printer Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Vainly might the Russian Czar, the Turkish Sultan plead; Vainly might the nations crave the mercy of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer William Cowper	Were half the breath thus vainly spent To heaven in supplication sent, Your cheerful song would oftener be, 'Hear what the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 47: The Hidden Life William Cowper	My laboring spirit vainly seeks To tell but half the joy, With how much tenderness He speaks, And helps me to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert William Cowper	And said, 'Lest Israel vainly boast, My arm procured me this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On An Engraving Of Hindoo Temples Letitia Elizabeth Landon	She struck are yet alive; Not vainly did she strive To leave her soul immortal on her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Hearing The Princess Royal Sing Victor Marie Hugo	So deep, thy small hands seek, Vainly, the pulse God...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Danger Of War George Meredith	Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed, This threat of War, that shows a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	Say but once-resign your breath- Vainly of escape you dream, You must pass the Stygian...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese William Wordsworth	thought? Nor hath that moral good been 'vainly' sought; For in their magnanimity and fame Powers have they left, an impulse, and a claim Which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Portrait Of A Beautiful Woman, Count Giacomo Leopardi	Above thy bones and clay, Here vainly placed by loving hands, Sole guardian of memory and woe, The image of departed beauty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)