"Ambition," by D.J.D., merits the fate of Icarus:

Lift me up and let me gaze
On the splendid world around me!
Lift me up from the earthy maze,
With fetters long that bound me!
Give me fame and give me power,
And the organ-voice of thunder;
Power for a space and fame for an hour,
Rending heaven asunder !

Let the world swim round my feet,
And round my head the glory—
Riches of lust yet doubly sweet,
To fling to the clouds my story!
Let me thresh with monstrous wings,
Circles vast and vaster,
Till the cringing pack of slaves and kings
Bow down and own their master!

Then when sunset splendours die,
Place not a sentence o'er me.
Let me in state and solitude lie,
Where mad Ambition bore me.
Be this the theme my mourners take:
Let never a man unbraid him.
Heaven herself he sought to shake;
God alone forbade him!