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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMBITION AND GLORY, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON 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 | |||
ALAS! our glories float between the earthand heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind, Still, like the cloud which drops on unseen crags The dews the wild flower feeds on, our ambition May from its airy height drop gladness down On unsuspected virtue; and the flower May bless the cloud when it hath pass'd away! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RHYME OUT OF MOTLEY by AMY LOWELL PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY by JOHN CIARDI THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES by ROBERT FROST SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE ARCHITECT (2) by KAREN SWENSON WATERING THE HORSE by ROBERT BLY FAILING AND FLYING by JACK GILBERT SONG, FR. ERNEST MALTRAVERS by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON A SPENDTHRIFT by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON ABSENT YET PRESENT by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |
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