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Boy And the Angel, The Robert Browning	an's cell ``And set thee here; I did not well. ``Vainly I left my angel-sphere, ``Vain was thy dream of many a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boys Bathing Muriel Stuart	Faltering against the wind and sun That vainly seek your hair for gold, Stubborned with habit, grey and old, You know not why you wander...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince John Dryden	The snakes besieged his young divinity; But vainly with their forked tongues they threat, For opposition makes a hero...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brown Of Ossawatomie John Greenleaf Whittier	So vainly shall Virginia set her battle in array; In vain her trampling squadrons knead the winter snow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
By The Waters Of Babylon Christina Georgina Rossetti	Vainly we gird on sackcloth, vainly kneel With famished faces toward Jerusalem: His heart is shut...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cain And Abel John Newton	And, when his blood for vengeance cried, He vainly thought to hide his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cambrai and Marne Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts	On which the breakers vainly fall– Till came the word, and we obeyed, Reluctant, bleeding,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canzone VII. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	And vainly to oppose must irksome grow, Even as I my heart to stone would turn, "So in my verse would I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canzonet Mary Darby Robinson	While we hope our pangs concealing, Vainly hope to check his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cape Byron James Brunton Stephens	Doth lavish Nature vainly importune The unconscious witness of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Caroline Chisholm Henry Kendall	and the rains were abroad—the homeless looked vainly for alms; And they prayed in the dark to the Lord, with agony clenched in their palms, “There...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cases - Dashwood V. Jermyn James Williams	Vainly Dashwood cash expended The executors defended, Claiming that what Richards wrote Was not worth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Channing John Greenleaf Whittier	Nor vainly did old...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The First. George Gordon Byron	Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold, But now whereon a thousand keels did ride Of mighty strength,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds; Poor child of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I. George Gordon Lord Byron	Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beam'd -- To such as see thee not my words...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto II. George Gordon Lord Byron	Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds; Poor child of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Choriambics - II Rupert Brooke	Face of my dreams vainly in vision white Gleaming down to me,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Choriambics II Rupert Brooke	Face of my dreams vainly in vision white Gleaming down to me,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comparison William Shenstone	And praise the tuneful bird: But vainly might she strain her throat, Vainly exalt each swelling note, Should Silvia's voice be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Complexity MARGARET MONTROSE	As we struggle vainly up t’wards the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comrades An Episode Robert Nichols	His corporal, as one shamed, Vainly and helplessly his ill-luck...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confiteor Adam Lindsay Gordon	the saint must vainly plead, Oh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Constancy Lord John Wilmot	The sighs that now unpitied rise; The tears that vainly fall: That welcome hour that ends this smart, Will then begin your pain; For such a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Contemplation Ludy Bührs	manifestation of our ongoing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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