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Subject: RUDENESS
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A THOUGHTLESS GUEST, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: We gave you mountain fare
Last Line: Is naught to mountain men.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountain Life - Vermont; Rudeness; Visiting; Bad Manners


BACK TO MAKE THE BEARS SICK, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a big trashy
Last Line: Bony children back %to make the bears sick
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Rudeness


COUPLET, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great things are done when men and mountains meet
Last Line: This is not done by jostling in the street
Variant Title(s): To God;great Things Are Done
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Rudeness; Bad Manners


EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "said bassompierre, 'when I in spain abode"
Last Line: When at madrid I represented you'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;rudeness;spain; Bad Manners


MENTION, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rude men, their faces caked with the make-up
Last Line: Thrown in their eyes, eye to eye, they %are crouching to keep their balance in the wind
Subject(s): Rudeness


MISCHIEVOUS RODNEY, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mischievous rodney, one of the scamps
Last Line: Ten minutes later: no more world
Subject(s): Children; Rudeness


RUDENESS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: James went to the door of the kitchen and said
Last Line: Were learn'd to be us'd in the parlour alone!
Subject(s): Boys; Rudeness; Bad Manners


SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child
Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends.
Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners


THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rude querist! My feelings your question enrages
Last Line: "till I know what is his who will make me a bride."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Aging; Census; Rudeness; Women; Bad Manners


TO A GENTLEMAN WHO DISORDERED A LADY'S HANDKERCHIEF, ... CUT HIS THUMB, by ELIZABETH TEFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your punishment is just, you must confess
Last Line: Lest serpents sting you, when you next intrude.
Subject(s): Punishment; Rudeness; Bad Manners


TO A LADY, WHO VALU'D HERSELF ON SPEAKING HER MIND IN A BLUNT MANNER, WHICH SHE CALL'D BEING SINCERE, by MARY BARBER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well you sincerity display
Subject(s): Rudeness; Bad Manners