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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMBITION Matches Found: 115 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beneath polluted skies Last Line: And forge and mould the world anew.' Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Death; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Temptation; Dead, The; Optimism; Work; Workers A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress, since you so much desire Last Line: I climb to crown my chaste desire. Subject(s): Cupid; Ambition; Love A LAMENT, by MRS. A. J. WIRTZ Poem Text First Line: It's hard to be a turnip Last Line: And think in common prose. Subject(s): Ambition A RHYME OUT OF MOTLEY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grasped a thread of silver; it cut me to the bone Subject(s): Ambition A SIGH FOR KNOCKMANY, by WILLIAM CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take, proud ambition, take thy fill Last Line: To pipe the song of youth again. Subject(s): Ambition; Youth; Disappointment ALL THOSE ATTEMPTS IN THE CHANGING ROOM!, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look for me Subject(s): Ambition; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) ALLATOONA EVENING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half a mile through a briar scrub thickening to woods Last Line: These three stars soaking up twilight. Subject(s): Ambition; Emptiness; Happiness; Success; Joy; Delight AMBITION, by MARY ASTELL Poem Text First Line: What's this that with such vigour fills my brest? Last Line: Great o my god, great in humilitie. Subject(s): Ambition; Women AMBITION, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL Poem Text First Line: What use in heaven could I ever be Last Line: To dream and rhyme for him eternally? Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Belief; Creed AMBITION, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had ambition once. Like solomon Last Line: Now I ask silence. My ambition ends. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by FRANK FREDERICK CLOUSER Poem Text First Line: I dream no more of varied love Last Line: So I to death shall smiling go. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little fire Last Line: Dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I had ambition, by which sin Last Line: Be into paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've shoed my horse and fed my cow Last Line: Perhaps I'll grow to be them all. Subject(s): Ambition; Children; Professions; Childhood AMBITION, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the shrine of the far-flung dare Last Line: Crowns for the heads of kings I shape. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by RANN KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet these are but a herald band Last Line: And loud-voiced trumpets his approach declare! Subject(s): Ambition; October AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns AMBITION, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kenton and deborah, michael and rose Last Line: "who knows but the rest may be nicer than these?" Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by EDWARD LYSAGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ease often visits shepherd-swains Last Line: Clean linen, and a guinea! Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by SARAH C. MAYO Poem Text First Line: Lo! On the mountain's brow Last Line: O'er all this world of need! Alternate Author Name(s): Edgarton, Sarah C. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AMBITION, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must no longer now admire Last Line: But beauty's only meant for love. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless it was that day I never knew Last Line: What 'twas ambition for I know not well Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't always think penelope Last Line: Drunken war. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus AMBITION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In man, ambition is the common'st thing Last Line: Each one, by nature, loves to be a king. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wayes to greatnesse, think on this Last Line: That slippery all ambition is. Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION AND ART, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Last Line: That lives for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Eyes; Life; Love; Soul AMBITION AND ATTAINMENT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Each man would wish to be his own good-master Last Line: Since happiest he who all too late attains! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION AND CONTENT; A FABLE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While yet the world was young and men were few Last Line: And all applaud the justice of the god. Subject(s): Ambition; Fables; Allegories AMBITION AND GLORY, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Our glories float between the earth Last Line: May bless the cloud when it hath pass'd away! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Ambition AMBITION CANNOT FIND HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For our mutual hone, immortality! Subject(s): Immortality; Ambition AMBITION'S TRAIL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the end of this continuous striving Last Line: On, on, ambitious soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Valor; Bravery AMBITIONS ARE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You don't trade money here Last Line: How old were you when you began to disappear? Subject(s): Ambition; Emotions; Selfishness; Violence AMYNTA, by GILBERT ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: My sheep I neglected, I broke my sheep-hook Last Line: The moments neglected return not again. Subject(s): Ambition; Love - Loss Of ASPIRATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though my frail soul should never touch again Last Line: Imbued with hopes of immortality. Subject(s): Ambition; God; Immortality ASPIRATION, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As longs the star for night Last Line: O holy one. Subject(s): Ambition; Desire ASPIRATION, by KATHERINE BLANCHE PECK Poem Text First Line: I shall look up to the high hills Last Line: Even when I've staked all in life's tourney -- and lost. Subject(s): Ambition CIVILIZATION, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Ambition COPPER-SHOD HOOFBEATS OF XIANGYANG, by JING PIANPIAN Poem Source First Line: You're a xiangyang man Last Line: How then could I cry to others? Subject(s): Ambition DREAMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hope some day to write a song that will Last Line: Coal, you struggle on accordin'. Subject(s): Ambition; Dreams; Wishes; Nightmares DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you Last Line: If I ever get it... Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ENDEAVOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw him from our guarded wall Last Line: Than never to have dared! Subject(s): Ambition; Icarus; Mythology - Classical EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FAILING AND FLYING, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone forgets that icarus also flew Subject(s): Ambition FAMOUS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river is famous to the fish Subject(s): Ambition; Fame; Reputation FANNY: 114, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had been noticed at some public places Last Line: A lustre in her eye, that oft would seem Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Admiration; Ambition FANNY: 115, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little like effortery; and yet Last Line: Others have done the same - 'twas not of her invention Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Admiration; Ambition; Fame FANNY: 135, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition with her sire had kept her word Last Line: Some said there was a cloud upon his brow; %it might be - but we'll not discuss that now Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Poetry And Poets FANNY: 44, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But miss ambition was, as I was saying Last Line: And then she vanished, whispering verbum sap Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Ambition FOOL'S GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See him there, cold and gray Last Line: He can't play. Subject(s): Ambition; Business; Gold; Investments; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Stocks; Bonds FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, since you so much desire Last Line: There, there, o there lies cupid's fire. Subject(s): Ambition; Cupid; Love; Eros FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: LOVE IS WISER THAN AMBITION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O give not up the promise of your time Last Line: Must shed its light without. Subject(s): Ambition; Home; Love GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: A little lad is born Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew. Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict HAPPY HOUR WITH LEARY, by JEFFREY SKINNER Poem Source First Line: In the middle of distant conversation Last Line: Seventeen years old, not even the need %to shave yet every morning Subject(s): Ambition; Business HE KISSED THE LIPS OF AMBITION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, he kissed the lips of ambition Last Line: A broken down reed, unsung! Subject(s): Ambition HISTORY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Very few want to read history,' the teacher said Last Line: Greed is always staring straight ahead.' Subject(s): Ambition; Greed; History; Teaching And Teachers HONOR, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Ambitious sir, take heed Last Line: Who fell full fifty cubits high. Subject(s): Ambition; Honor HORATIAN ECHO, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Omit, omit, my simple friend Last Line: When dawns that day, that day. Subject(s): Transience; Ambition; Impermanence I WOULD I COULD DANCE, by HELEN M. BROUGH Poem Text Last Line: Fore your laughing eye. Subject(s): Ambition; Dancing & Dancers; Longing IMITATION OF AN ODE BY KOODRUT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition's voice was in my ear, she whisper'd yesterday Last Line: "the lesser wealth, the lighter load, -- small blame betides the poor." Subject(s): Ambition; Wisdom INGENIOUS OVERSOUL, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I am akin to failure. Dreams too high Last Line: Not judge a star as but a shining stone. Subject(s): Ambition; Honesty JACOB'S LADDER, by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: An even goal describes a day of sun Last Line: Is jacob's ladder, urging them to climb. Subject(s): Ambition LINES TO BE SPOKEN BY THOMAS DENMAN.....WHEN FOUR YEARS OLD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, I'll not be held, let me come by Last Line: I'll strut and fret my part with any here. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Children; Ambition; Childhood LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas Last Line: What have we squandered? Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians LOST: AMBITION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An old %loose shoes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ambition; Idleness; Nature MITCHING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The leaf scuttles across the schoolyard Last Line: A dot com millionaire. Subject(s): Ambition; Boys; Greed MY AMBITION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is to become a footnote Last Line: Turgid lines of footnote. Subject(s): Ambition; Dahlberg, Edward (1900-1977); Footnotes; Legacies; Poetry & Poets NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery ODE - 'ON A DISTANT PROSPECT' OF MAKING A FORTUNE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the 'rosy morn appearing' Last Line: "died, t. Mivins; of disgust." Subject(s): Ambition; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) ODE ON AMBITION, by JAMES MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: In vain heaven tempers life with sweet Last Line: Quits not, with all his canvas spread, the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Marriott, Sir Jame Subject(s): Ambition ODE TO LYCORIS (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of climbing toil! - ambition treads Last Line: Are the domains of tender memory! Subject(s): Ambition ON HIS BEING [OR, HAVING] ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth Last Line: As ever in my great task-master's eye. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7;on Reaching Twenty-three;on His Birthday;on Reaching Age 23;how Soon Hath Time Subject(s): Aging; Ambition; Holidays; New Year ONE THING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one Last Line: A harvest of barren regrets. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ambition; Life OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen ORGAN SONGS: THE GRACE OF GRACE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the grace to win the grace Last Line: Thy grace divine is all, and more. Subject(s): Ambition; Grace PATIENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: New come from church (a place where I Last Line: Patience is sure & ample victorie. Subject(s): Ambition; Fame; Patience; Prayer; Reputation PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A summer's pastoral looks on barn and bib Last Line: The eagle's ticks are airborne but no flyers Subject(s): Flight; Ambition POSTPONED, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God! Did I hear you call? Yesterday? Today? Last Line: You see, I'm busy, because you made me that way. Subject(s): Ambition; Death; God; Hope; Learning; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism QUIET MONEY, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The bootlegger opens his eyes and stares Last Line: How what we do to get them can make us sorry... %send the word, send the word to beware Subject(s): Alcock, John William (1892-1919); Ambition; Aviation And Aviators; Brown, Arthur Whitten (1886-1948); Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) REPUBLICAN PROCESSION, SELS., by EDWARD WARD Poem Source First Line: When this ill-favour'd troop was past Last Line: With rats-tails tuck'd behind their ears Subject(s): Ambition; Churchill, John (1650-1722) SLIPPING ON HIS COAT, HE SAID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When I was a slave, I made money Last Line: The company of slaves.' Subject(s): Ambition; Freedom; Money; Slavery SONG, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May the ambitious ever find Last Line: Her arms much softer nights. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Ambition SONNET, by B. PRILUTSKY Poem Text First Line: Since you are done and I must now depart Last Line: Though wounds are healed the scars do yet remain. Subject(s): Ambition SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 80, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Black curse upon money Last Line: Are not in my house Subject(s): Ambition; Money SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonas keene thought his lot a hard one Last Line: The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me. Subject(s): Ambition; Suicide THE AIM, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who lovest not alone Last Line: I bless thy goad of discontent. Subject(s): Ambition; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE ARCHITECT (2), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever his dreams have been it is now hard to say Last Line: He hears the wind that cries through feathered wings. Subject(s): Ambition; Architecture & Architects; Memory THE ASPIRATION, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days he rode: the sun at morn Last Line: From sky to sky the same Subject(s): Ambition; Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE BEACHCOMBER, by MILDRED DOSCH BANTA Poem Text First Line: He had not always meant to be Last Line: When better talents you could give? Subject(s): Ambition; Beachcombers; Fate; Destiny THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CLIMBING ROAD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go, oh climbing road, mounting, mounting ever Last Line: For still my heart within me cries to seek the great endeavor! Subject(s): Ambition; Climbing; Roads; Paths; Trails THE COMING ON OF NIGHT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ambition, like a faulty Subject(s): Ambition THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILBERT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John gilbert was a bushranger Last Line: Ought we to interfere? Subject(s): Ambition;crimes & Criminals;heroism; Heroes;heroines THE KING'S FAVORITES, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king, once summoned his favorites Last Line: "since I've lost ambition and high-headed pride?" Subject(s): Ambition; Humility; Pride; Prudence; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Caution THE LOWER BOUGH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on the lower bough Last Line: Within the light. Subject(s): Ambition THE MILLS OF THE GODS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He was the slave of ambition Last Line: Yet they grind exceeding small Subject(s): Ambition;devil;faust; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub THE MIRACLE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every now and then a fishing pole Last Line: Reached up his arm as if asking Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ambition; Death; Anglers; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 6, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In bitterness of soul, sir eliduc Last Line: That they who loved him reverenced him the more. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Ambition; Courts & Courtiers THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shone the morn, the gale was fair Last Line: Shall bear good tidings home. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Failure; Spanish Armada; English THE THIEF, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might choose my simple lot Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside Last Line: It can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men Subject(s): Ambition; Trees THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside Last Line: But if it is destined never again to grow, %it can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men Subject(s): Ambition; Trees THEREFORE I AM NOT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At thirty-five, he gave up trying to think Last Line: And became head of a global control bank. Subject(s): Ambition; Banks And Banking; Loss TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery TO OUR BLESSED LADY (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sovereign of queens: if vain ambition move Last Line: And, jealous, bids me love her alone. Subject(s): Ambition; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God speed you on your high emprise Last Line: And plant the flag of england there. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English TRIOLET, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By ambition raised high Last Line: Give, o give me the dove's wings! Subject(s): Ambition; Flight; Flying TRIOLET, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worldly designs, fears, hopes, farewell! Last Line: No joys but thine are purely sweet. Subject(s): Ambition; Flight; Flying UNREST, by CAVE OUTLAW Poem Text First Line: O vanishing goal! Last Line: Crumbling to dust beneath the feet. Subject(s): Ambition WATERING THE HORSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange to think of giving up all ambition Subject(s): Ambition WHERE DREAMS COME FROM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl slams the door of her little room Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; Ambition; Family Life; Relatives WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. 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