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Songs Written to Welsh Airs Amelia Opie	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet -- Ye Hasten To The Grave! Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go, And all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth William Shakespeare	Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still William Shakespeare	At random from the truth vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality Dante Gabriel Rossetti	I' the other's gaze, even as in his whose wand Vainly all night with spell-wrought power has spann'd The unyielding caves of some deep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet LXIX Charlotte Smith	Contending vainly: as the vessel nears, Increasing numbers hail it from the shore;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet LXXX. To The Invisible Moon Charlotte Smith	Now vainly seek thee on the brow of night-- Mild Sorrow, such as hope has not forsook, May love to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet To Expression Helen Maria Williams	His spirit, vainly to the Muses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XIX: On Cupid's Bow Sir Philip Sidney	Avise themselves that they are vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XLVII: In Pride of Wit Michael Drayton	No public glory vainly I pursue; All that I seek is to eternize...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXXVII. Charlotte Smith	less vainly would the Muse pretend, On her weak lyre, to sing the native grace And native goodness of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
SONNET. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite Henry King	Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite To taste the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Soul-Sickness Jones Very	How often vainly sought in things below, Whether in sunny clime, or sacred stream, Or plant of wondrous powers...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Southern Cross Harold Hart Crane	Whatever call—falls vainly on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
St. Luke John Keble	The mystery of the wicked heart - Why vainly oft our arrows speed When aimed with most unerring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
St. Philip And St. James John Keble	She plies her weary task, While vainly for some pleasant dream Her wandering glances...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stanzas to the Rose Mary Darby Robinson	When Morn's bright torch illum'd the sky, Vainly thy flaunting buds display'd Enamell'd leaves of crimson die, Ill-fated blossoms doom'd to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Star-Gazing John Boyle O'Reilly	Or pin a mystery 'neath our puny pestle, And vainly try to bray its secret...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stonewall Jackson Herman Melville	Dead is the Man whose Cause is dead, Vainly he died and set his seal -...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sunset On The Bearcamp John Greenleaf Whittier	Not vainly Hellas dreamed of gods On Ida's snowy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sweet Fern John Greenleaf Whittier	Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned; On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound No censer idly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sweet Sister Victor Marie Hugo	In pleasure's whirl would vainly...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Taking An Ostrich Richard Cobbold	This Ostrich taken, vainly tries From chord of Courser to be free;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tale XI George Crabbe	But malice vainly throws the poison'd dart, Unless our frailty shows the peccant part; And Arabella still...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tamara Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov	A youth's form her currents are bearing, Ah vainly they murmur and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)