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Herod's Lament For Mariamne George Gordon Lord Byron	And this dark heart is vainly craving For her who soars alone above, And leaves my soul unworthy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hesperia Algernon Charles Swinburne	And my heart yearns baffled and blind, moved vainly toward thee, and moving As the refluent seaweed moves in the languid exuberant stream, Fair as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hiawatha's Fishing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Through the clear, transparent water, Waited vainly for an answer, Long sat waiting for an answer, And repeating loud and louder, "Take my bait,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hindoo Temples and Palace at Madura 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)
Hitch-Hiker Fear Douglas Blair	But there’s a little fact that he So vainly, still has...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honor To Woman Friedrich Schiller	What he planneth, still pursuing; Vainly as the Hydra bleeds, Crest the severed crest renewing-- Wish to withered wish...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile William Cowper	Still vainly strives to shun the threatening death; And while he thinks to gain the friendly coast, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How It's Done William Schwenck Gilbert	Just to show he's acting...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
HOW many of the body's health complain, 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)
Human Frailty William Cowper	A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 7 Isaac Watts	That feed upon the wind, And vainly strive with earthly toys To fill an empty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn to Adversity Thomas Gray	And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I amongst the We Rahul Gauba	As I waddle vainly on the lost city streets, the vulpine gazes of the plebian folks, judge me by my attire and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Cannot Change, As Others Do 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 fauthful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Cannot Love Thee! Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	By the unresponsive gaze; By the smile which vainly plays, In whose cold imperfect birth Glows no fondness, lives no mirth; By the sigh,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I fear I Fear	I Fear and vainly drear I must not go to school Am only fit for the kitchenbstool 'When do we marry her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I hate being scared like that Kadot36	Our grounds drift apart And I vainly try to hold on— 'Cause, you see, when I touch When I hold, I can't easily let...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
I Shall Not Forget Ella Wheeler Wilcox	In the midnight of sorrow I vainly have striven To crush in my heart the sweet image hid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Thirst Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	Nor do thou seek to vainly delve Where death's pale angels tread, To hear the murmur of its flow Around the silent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Imitated From Ossian Samuel Taylor Coleridge	His searching eye shall vainly roam The dreary vale of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In A Swedish Graveyard Emma Lazarus	Neither dreading and fearing the morrow, Nor vainly bemoaning the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In A Vale Robert Frost	No, not vainly there did I dwell, Nor vainly listen all the night...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Barracks L. Larry Amadore	silent in my patch of dark, and try, vainly, to extinguish a more persistent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memoriam G. A. P. Edward Woodley Bowling	And we, who remember his worth and truth, Stand vainly grieving o'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The City Of Slaughter (excerpt) Hayyim Nahman Bialik	Your dead were vainly dead; and neither I nor you Know why you died or wherefore, for whom, nor by what laws; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)