Potential Titles: Ambition
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somethingdarkerAmbition grasps the empire of the soul - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
As mortal children of ambition - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
The thin substance of our ambitions - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Found electricity in mere ambition - Lucie Brock-Broido "The One Thousand Days"
Airy dreams of high ambition - Marie Hedderwick Browne "At Last"
Ambitions make the world unkind - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Raw bones of ambition - Jennifer Chang "Dorothy Wordsworth"
Buried ambition in the forest - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"
Lift your ambitions to the hills - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
From Ambition evil-starred - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
My first ambition and my dearest aim - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
Deceives with whispering ambitions - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Nor with ambition break the peace - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Teach me I am forgotten by the dead"
Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Swallowed with brilliant, glowing ambition - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
Fierce Ambition breathes his burning vow - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
No ambition to register - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"
To Ambition's altar led - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Grace Ambition's regal throne - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Once ambition burned my breast - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Endie"
False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The secret ambition of the sun - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Worry the Rosemary"
Ambitious experiments in destruction - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"
To shake ambition from their memories - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Shall we build to Ambition - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"
A space of briar ambition - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Ambitious to extend my reputation - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
The detritus of our ambitions - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
A government crushing ambitions into pennies - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Ambition was the ghost unseen - Randall Mann "End Words"
Ambitious to beguile your heart - George Martin "The Apple Woman"
On which ambitions feed - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Ambition's dizzy paths essayed - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Looking for more ambitious treasures - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"
Lest ambition make us fall - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"
The worldly schemes that fierce ambition wrought - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Ambitions wide as the four seas - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Not for ambition or bread - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Our red ambitions burn - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
And thwart Ambition's schemes - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
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The ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
As mortal children of ambition - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
The thin substance of our ambitions - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Found electricity in mere ambition - Lucie Brock-Broido "The One Thousand Days"
Airy dreams of high ambition - Marie Hedderwick Browne "At Last"
Ambitions make the world unkind - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Raw bones of ambition - Jennifer Chang "Dorothy Wordsworth"
Buried ambition in the forest - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"
Lift your ambitions to the hills - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
From Ambition evil-starred - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
My first ambition and my dearest aim - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
Deceives with whispering ambitions - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Nor with ambition break the peace - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Teach me I am forgotten by the dead"
Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Swallowed with brilliant, glowing ambition - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
Fierce Ambition breathes his burning vow - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
No ambition to register - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"
To Ambition's altar led - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Grace Ambition's regal throne - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Once ambition burned my breast - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Endie"
False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The secret ambition of the sun - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Worry the Rosemary"
Ambitious experiments in destruction - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"
To shake ambition from their memories - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Shall we build to Ambition - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"
A space of briar ambition - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Ambitious to extend my reputation - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
The detritus of our ambitions - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
A government crushing ambitions into pennies - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Ambition was the ghost unseen - Randall Mann "End Words"
Ambitious to beguile your heart - George Martin "The Apple Woman"
On which ambitions feed - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Ambition's dizzy paths essayed - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Looking for more ambitious treasures - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"
Lest ambition make us fall - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"
The worldly schemes that fierce ambition wrought - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Ambitions wide as the four seas - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Not for ambition or bread - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Our red ambitions burn - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
And thwart Ambition's schemes - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
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