Blacklight

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for: Content type Poem Remove constraint Content type: Poem Poem Theme Ambition Remove constraint Poem Theme: Ambition
| 21 - 30 of 274 |
Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Gallery

Search Results

21. Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes

First Line:
Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes
Last Line:
And close confined in their own palace sleep
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1357

22. Ambition hath but two steps the lowest

First Line:
Ambition hath but two steps the lowest
Last Line:
Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens
Author:
John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:
13443

23. Ambition is a lust that's never quenched

First Line:
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched
Last Line:
Grows more enflamed and madder by enjoyment
DMI number:
14185

24. Ambition is an idol on whose wings

First Line:
Ambition is an idol on whose wings
Last Line:
To be sublimely great or to be nothing
DMI number:
14189

25. Ambition is at distance

First Line:
Ambition is at distance
Last Line:
What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179

26. Ambition is like love impatient

First Line:
Ambition is like love impatient
Last Line:
Both of delays and rivals
DMI number:
39174

27. Ambition is the dropsy of the soul

First Line:
Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
Last Line:
How then should souls allied to sense resist it
DMI number:
14183

28. Ambition is the saint to which you pray

First Line:
Ambition is the saint to which you pray
Last Line:
So may they fare that with ambition swell
DMI number:
44396

29. Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven

First Line:
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
Last Line:
Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37441

30. Ambition like a torrent never looks back

First Line:
Ambition like a torrent never looks back
Last Line:
And offers violence to nature's self
DMI number:
14191