May the ambitious ever find
- DMI number:
- 4205
- First Line:
- May the ambitious ever find
- Last Line:
- Her arms much softer nights
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab, Ballad metre, and Song
- Themes:
- Ambition, Love, Sex / relations between the sexes, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Charles Sackville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) VIII: 345. Harris (1979): 79-80.
- First Line:
- Let the ambitious favour find
- Last Line:
- Her arms much softer nights
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The annual miscellany for the year 1694, being the fourth part of miscellany poems [N34956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.254-255
- Poem Title:
- A Song
- Attribution:
- By -
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 [ESTC R22916]
- Page No(s):
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By ---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By -
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]
- Page No(s):
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- A Song
- Attribution:
- By -
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- Song 68.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
- Page No(s):
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- Song 68.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.203
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- The Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- Page No(s):
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]
- Page No(s):
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
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