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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Ambition
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I had ambition once. Like Solomon
 I asked for wisdom, deeming wisdom fair,
 And with much pains a little knowledge won
 Of Nature`s cruelty and Man`s despair,
 And mostly learned how vain such learnings were.
 Then in my grief I turned to happiness,
 And woman`s love awhile was all my care,
 And I achieved some sorrow and some bliss,
 Till love rebelled. Then the mad lust of power
 Became my dream, to rule my fellow--men;
 And I too lorded it my little hour,
 And wrought for weal or woe with sword and pen,
 And wounded many, some, alas, my friends.
 Now I ask silence. My ambition ends.
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