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Poems About Ambitionin the open canon
- Indexed poems
- 157
- Indexed poets
- 0
- Short poems
- 12
Where to begin with ambition
Three ways in01 · Most-read entry
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
by Ezra Pound, 1920
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02 · Editor's pick
The Golden Hynde
by Alfred Noyes, 1908
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03 · Counterpoint
The Man Who Discovered the Use of a Chair
by Alfred Noyes, 1922
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound1920Excerpt - 02
The Golden Hynde
Alfred Noyes1908Excerpt - 03
The Man Who Discovered the Use of a Chair
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 04
The New Duckling
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 05
To a Successful Man
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 06
A Chamber in the Vatican
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 07
Addressed to the Same
John Keats—PD - 08
A Dithyrambic
Horace—PD - 09
A Fable for Critics
James Russell Lowell—PD - 10
A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Against Avarice and Luxury
Horace—PD - 12
A Garden of the Cenci Palace
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 13
Aged 22
Amy Lowell—PD - 14
A Glance Behind the Curtain
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Agro Dolce
James Russell Lowell—PD - 16
Also St. John, with Some Gentlemen of the Inns of Court
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 17
A New Edition
Walt Whitman—PD - 18
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
Andrew Marvell—PD - 19
Antiochus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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Short poems about ambition
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