Read full poem →And old Silenus, youthful in decay,
Employ'd their wiles and unavailing care
To pass the fences, and surprise the fair!
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Poetry examples for “unavailing”
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Read full poem →From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering;
Read full poem →Flew the arrows fast;
Aimed at Eric unavailing,
As he sat concealed,
Read full poem →Stanza xc. "Not all the blood at Talavera shed,"--
Stanza xci. "And thou, my friend!--since unavailing woe,"--
Stanza xcii. "Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most,"--
Read full poem →Clapt their glad wings, the heav'nly vaults resound.
Say, parents, why this unavailing moan?
Why heave your pensive bosoms with the groan?
Read full poem →And equal wonders may this patient share.
But unavailing, frantic is the dream
To hope thine aid without the aid of him
Read full poem →Shunning soft Pity’s rising sway,
Regardless of the tears and unavailing pray’rs!
Perhaps this hour, in Misery’s squalid nest,
Read full poem →Shunning soft pity’s rising sway,
Regardless of the tears, and unavailing pray’rs!
Perhaps this hour, in mis’ry’s squalid nest,
Read full poem →Shunning soft pity's rising sway,
Regardless of the tears and unavailing prayers!
Perhaps this hour, in misery's squalid nest,