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To F.W.F. James Clerk Maxwell	He that neatly gilds the pill Hides the drug but vainly, So, in chance-sown words, I will Speak the matter...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To George B. Cheever John Greenleaf Whittier	Not vainly shalt thou cast upon our years The solemn burdens of the Orient seers, And smite with truth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To His Grace The Duke Of Buckingham And Normanby, At The Camp Before Philipsburgh. Mary Barber	MUSE, look not back, nor vainly mourn the Fate, Which robb'd Britannia of an Arm so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To June. Written After An Ungenial May Denis Florence MacCarthy	Too long I've knelt, and vainly hung My offerings round an empty name; O...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Lydia Maria Child John Greenleaf Whittier	No love He prompts shall vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Mr. F. Now Earl of W Anne Kingsmill Finch	Which from abroad she'd vainly sought, Did there in Silence...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Friend OnThe Death Of His Sister John Greenleaf Whittier	And on thy ears my words of weak condoling Must vainly fall The funeral bell which in thy heart is tolling, Sounds over...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Liars Ambrose Bierce	Would vainly seek to move my stubborn heart If slander were, and wit were not, an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Lord Buckhurst, Very Young, Playing With A Cat Matthew Prior	Lest thou prefer so rash a prayer, Nor vainly hope the queen of love, Will e'er thy favourite's charms...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Philip Bourke Marston, Inciting Me To Poetic Work Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Vainly light-blest,—the Seër's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Pius IX John Greenleaf Whittier	Not vainly Roman hearts have bled To feed the, Crosier and the Crown, If, roused thereby, the world...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another La Fontaine	The ardent lover vainly tries: Fruitless his arts to make her waver, She will not grant the smallest favour: A ruse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Robin Redbreast George Meredith	Picturing vainly, but foretelling plainly The wealth of cottage warmth that comes When the frost gleams and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Sensibility Helen Maria Williams	Though she, if death the bands should tear She vainly thought secure, Through life must languish in despair, That never hopes a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Christian Reader Michael Wigglesworth	But vainly do they tell, That I am growing stronger, Who hear me speak in half an hour, Till I can speak...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Daisy (fourth poem) William Wordsworth	not vainly done For this, if other end were none, That He, who had been cast Upon a way of life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16 -- my Birthday. Jane Austen	Vainly we wearch around the vacant place, We ne'er may look upon thy like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The South Paul Laurence Dunbar	That echoes vainly to the heedless sky; Too long, too long, the Macedonian call Falls fainting far beyond the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Sub-Prior Sir Walter Scott	Vainly, Sir Prior, wouldst thou bar me my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet VI.) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Vainly did cruel death attempt to stay The rumor of thy virtuous renown, That Lethe's waters could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tom Van Arden James Whitcomb Riley	Of the women we have loved: Vainly we congratulate Our escape from such a fate As their lying lips could send, Tom Van Arden, my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Too Late Alfred Austin	And I but known what vainly now I know, Lying here alone, how happy had I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Trafalgar Square Robert Fuller Murray	Who with despair, like them, have vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
True Enjoyment Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Truth Frederick George Scott	Toiled upward, but toiled vainly towards the prize; Some following, shunning some where others...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)