AMBITIOUS Sir, take heed; For thou on Glass dost tread. No Glass more beautifull & cleer Than all the paths of Honor are; No Glass more slippery can be Or brittle, than deceitfull She. 2 Ambitious Sir take heed, Thou trustest to a Reed. No Reed's more tost & scorned by All Windes, than Honors bravery: No Reed will wound more deeply Thee Who leanst on it, than treacherous She. 3 Ambitious Sir take heed; Thou rid'st a dangerous Steed. No Steed his crest doth more advance, Or proudlyer than Honor prance: No Steed did e'r so desperatlie Stumble, as most uncertain She. 4 Ambitious Sir, take heed; Thou dost on Poison feed. No Poison in a goodlyer cup Than that of Honor's served up: No Poison e'r made drinker be More swollen, than doth banefull She. 5 Ambitious Sir take heed; And in brave Haman read A wholesome Lesson: who but He Honor's own Darling was! Yet see His ruines monstrous mockery, Who fell full fifty cubits high. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1914: 2. SAFETY by RUPERT BROOKE A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE] by GEORGE HERBERT HISTORY OF A LIFE by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 79. THE MONOCHORD by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI VIRGILS GNAT by EDMUND SPENSER THE ROVER O' LOCHRYAN by HEW AINSLIE TREES AND WAVES by AL-ISRA'ILI A COUNTRY NOSEGAY by ALFRED AUSTIN LINES WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |