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An American Tale Helen Maria Williams	Where is the path that fancy spread, Ah, vainly spread with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Autumn Evening At Murray Bay Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Vainly seeks the eye a flow’ret ’mid the desolation drear, Or a spray of pleasant verdure which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Autumn Picture Alfred Austin	Vainly the bramble strives to drape the hedge, Whose leafless gaps show many an empty nest: The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AN ELEGY Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt Henry King	I therefore vainly now not ask thee why Thou didst so soon in thy Youths mid-way dy: But in my sence the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Emblem of Life Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	And thus we vainly pant for all the rich and golden glow, Which young Hope, like an early sun, upon its course...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness Anne Kingsmill Finch	To chear her now Statira vainly proves, And at thy Name alone she sighs, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To Dr. Moore Helen Maria Williams	I mean no giddy heights to climb, And vainly toil to be sublime; While every line with labour wrought, Is swell'd with tropes for want...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To Dr. Moore, Author Of A View Of Society And Manners In France, Switzerland, And Germany. Helen Maria Williams	And vainly toil to be sublime; While every line with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor William Strode	Now doth not make his words so vainly spoke To people's laughter: this munificence At once hath giv'n them ears, him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty Edmund Spenser	How vainly then do idle wits invent, That beauty is nought else but mixture made Of colours fair,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Imitation Of Some French Verses Thomas Parnell	Vainly the Time I have to roll In sad Reflection flies; Ye fondling Passions of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Invitation To Maecenas Eugene Field	By parboiled streams the shepherd dreams Vainly of ice-cream...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode on the Piece Helen Maria Williams	I heard the hollow surges roar And vainly beat her guardian steep; I heard the rising sounds of woe Loud on the storm's wild pinion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
And Yet It Is A Gentle Art Franklin P. Adams	How vainly men themselves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Another Economic Riddle Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Their meaning oft I vainly seek, Suspecting subtle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anselmo James Whitcomb Riley	Years did I vainly seek the good Lord's grace--, Prayed, fasted,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn George Gordon Lord Byron	Limping Decorum lingers far behind: Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace, Outstript and vanquish'd In the mental...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn. George Gordon Byron	Limping Decorum lingers far behind; Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace, Outstript and vanquish'd in the mental...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anticipation. Sophie M Almon Hensley	Of incompleted measures; and we dream Vainly, of the Musician and His theme, How the great Master in a day most blest Shall strike some...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Antioch Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Vainly did the augur seek In its path the will of heaven; Not to that fierce eye and beak, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Any Poet At Any Time Alfred Austin	Before whom advocacy vainly strives To make the better cause to seem the worse, To thy Tribunal, when our jangling lives...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Any Wife To Any Husband Robert Browning	Vainly the flesh fades; soul makes all things...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apostasy. Charlotte Bronte	Both rite and prayer are vainly spent, As dews upon the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arabella Stuart Felicia Dorothea Hemans	When darkness, from the vainly-doting sight, Covers its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Art Alfred Noyes	Vainly ye seek to escape The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)