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Famous Doer Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Gibran, Kahlil
...n you also. 

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, 

So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. 

Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self. 

You are the way and the wayfarers. 

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. 

Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet re...Read more of this...



by Parker, Dorothy
...uard against a wise,
Shun a timid youth and sad,
Hide from haunted eyes.

Never hold your heart in pain
For an evil-doer;
Never flip it down the lane
To a gifted wooer.

Never love a loving son,
Nor a sheep astray;
Gather up your skirts and run
From a tender way.

Never give away a tear,
Never toss a pine;
Should you heed my words, my dear,
You're no blood of mine!...Read more of this...

by Knight, Etheridge
...l ourselves for long. 
And we turned away, our eyes on the ground. Crushed. 
He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things
We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do. 
The fears of years like a biting whip,
Had cut deep bloody grooves
Across our backs....Read more of this...

by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...nd the furrow, 
 The plough-cloven clod 
 And the ploughshare drawn thorough, 
 The germ and the sod, 
The deed and the doer, the seed and the sower, the dust which is God. 

 Hast thou known how I fashion'd thee, 
 Child, underground? 
 Fire that impassion'd thee, 
 Iron that bound, 
Dim changes of water, what thing of all these hast thou known of or 
found? 

 Canst thou say in thine heart 
 Thou hast seen with thine eyes 
 With what cunning of art 
 Thou wast wrought i...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...need, and sad decay.
Preserve my soul, for *I have trod Heb. I am good, loving,
Thy waies, and love the just, a doer of good and
Save thou thy servant O my God holy things
Who still in thee doth trust.
Pity me Lord for daily thee
I call; 4 O make rejoyce 
Thy Servants Soul; for Lord to thee
I lift my soul and voice,
For thou art good, thou Lord art prone
To pardon, thou to all
Art full of mercy, thou alone
To them that on thee call.
Unto my supplication Lord
G...Read more of this...



by Fitzgerald, Edward
...y carry the full cup, so well
Disordered insolence and passion quell,
That there be nothing after to upbraid
Dreamer or doer in the part he played;
Whether tomorrow's dawn shall break the spell,
Or the last trumpet of the Eternal Day,
When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away....Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...,
His arrows--Philoctetes!

More glorious than the meeds
That in their strife with labor nerved the brave,
To the great doer of renowned deeds
The Hebe and the heaven the Thunderer gave.
Before the rescued rescuer [10] of the dead,
Bowed down the silent and immortal host;
And the twain stars [11] their guiding lustre shed,
On the bark tempest-tossed!

Art thou, fair world, no more?
Return, thou virgin-bloom on Nature's face;
Ah, only on the minstrel's magic shore,
Can we ...Read more of this...

by Hafez,
...Where is the pious doer? & I the estray’d one, where?
Behold how far the distance, from his safe home to here!

Dark is the stony desert, trackless & vast & dim,
Where is hope’s guiding lantern? Where is faith’s star so fair?

My heart fled from the cloister, & chant of monkish hymn,
What can avail me sainthood, fasting & punctual prayer?

What is the truth shall ligh...Read more of this...

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