6 Poems Grasping for More

Ambition is a double-edged sword, as Chinese warlord and poet Cao Cao can tell us.

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In 220 AD, the Han Dynasty of China fell. The nation split in three and entered a brief, bloody period of time known as the Three Kingdoms Period.

Cao Cao, a warlord who would be posthumously honored as Emperor of Wei, the northern nation, was more than just…