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Famous Docility Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Docility poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous docility poems. These examples illustrate what a famous docility poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...silly question of my love,
And speak to me of danger and disdain,
And look by fond old argument to move
My wisdom to docility again;
When to my prouder heart they set the pride
Of custom and the gossip of the street,
And show me figures of myself beside
A self diminished at their judgment seat;
Then do I sit as in a drowsy pew
To hear a priest expounding th' heavenly will,
Defiling wonder that he never knew
With stolen words of measured good and ill;
For to the lo...Read more of this...
by Drinkwater, John



...twofold part;
The first of nature, and the next of art;
Art presupposes nature; nature, she
Prepares the way for man's docility....Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert

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