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A Midday Winter Dream D. S. Fly	“I lingered in the blissful dream For hope’s ambitious sake Till Vesper hour arose and nudged My faculties...	Rate it (5.00 / 8 votes)
The Form of The Good is Without Blemish Karl Constantine FOLKES	Creating in this ambitious quest, a demiurge construction of his...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A Pearl Before Swine Robert B. Repenning	Which they hadn’t pecked apart With their ambitious beaks, And vanished like the ghost You always aspired to become, Dispersed...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Dog Kanidths	As ambitious as Napoleon yet as intelligent as Homer Your art is my muse and shines a splendor I could...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My old football John Milton Hayes	His aims and his ambitious Were opposed by one and all, And yet he somehow reached his goal That plucky old...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ruth Henry Lawson	And I was...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Thought That Lingers: Part Two Karl Constantine FOLKES	Thoughts served up to hungry minds; ambitious, fertile minds, in Faustian pact with the unknown; stuffed with savory desires; and dreams...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Unnatural Love Allen Tate	Brother and sister are estranged By his ambitious lies For he his sister Helen much deranged- Outraged her, and put coppers on her...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Warm sadness Unknown Author	Or was it my ambitious energy that did it Was it my over preparedness to respect them, was it that they never...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
WHO AM I JaQuiondia Banks	I am ambitious, I have big dreams that most would say is impossible But I believe I can achieve the optimum I...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Paradise Lost: Book 01 John Milton	If he opposed, and with ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God, Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud, ...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
Alain’s Choice Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	And the crown which I too am striving To win my ambitious...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
Billy's Alphabetical Animal Show James Whitcomb Riley	I was an Ibex ambitious To dive over chasms auspicious; He would leap down a peak And not light for a week, And swear...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
On A Chilly Day They Are Warm Inside Wallace Dean LaBenne	On an easy day they are ambitious In a funny way they are joy erased On a sunny day they are cloudy...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
"Villain v My Superman” Rowen	It was Ambitious to spread though his body It was Notorious for killing him It was Controlling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fragment Of Seneca Translated John Wilmot	Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of heaven, whose faith is but his pride; Let slavish souls lay by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fragment of Seneca Translated Lord John Wilmot	Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of heaven, whose faith is but his pride; Let slavish souls lay by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Monumental Column John Webster	O, that care should ever attain to so ambitious a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Night-piece on Death Thomas Parnell	A middle race of mortals own, Men, half ambitious, all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue Anne Killigrew	He'll need no Trophie nor ambitious Hearse, Who shall be honour'd by Dorinda's Verse; But where it is inscrib'd, That here doth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem For The Birth-Day Of The Right Honble The Lady Catharine Tufton Anne Kingsmill Finch	Pains, the Hopes, the Fears Of noble Youths, th'ambitious Cares Of Fathers, the long-fram'd Design, To add such Splendour to their Line, Whilst all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A poem on divine revelation Hugh Henry Brackenridge	He sang the pride of some ambitious chief, For olive crowns and wreaths of glory won; I sing the rise of that all glorious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton James Thomson	ambitious, I aspire In Nature's general symphony to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sculptor Ella Wheeler Wilcox	As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, lifts Chisel and hammer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's James Henry Leigh Hunt	Visit my dreams with an ambitious want; But then I should be forc'd to know the weight Of splendid cares, new to my former...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)