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Subject: COURTESY
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First Line: Once two little gentlemen, very polite
Last Line: Each walked away with a jubilant face.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


A MONSIEUR NASO, VEROLE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naso lets none drink in his glass but he
Last Line: Think you 'tis curious pride? 'tis courtesy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Etiquette; Wine; Manners; Courtesy


AFFECTATION, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The men of simple manners please; they
Last Line: Blamed ridiculous you are!
Subject(s): Etiquette; Men; Pride; Manners; Courtesy; Self-esteem; Self-respect


BE POLITE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us try to be polite
Last Line: And don't forget 'thank you'
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners;courtesy


CAELICA: 23, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merlin, they say, an english prophet born
Last Line: "yet you would laugh as heartily, as I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Subject(s): Etiquette; Merlin; Manners; Courtesy


COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or courtesy, it is much less
Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Courtesy; Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy


COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of courtesy, it is much less
Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy


ETIQUETTE, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ballyshannon foundered off the coast of cariboo
Last Line: And somers has the turtle -- turtle always makes him sick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


GOOD MANNERS AT MEAT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This rule of manners I will teach my guests
Last Line: Farc't with the food, that may themselves suffice.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


HOW TO GET ON IN SOCIETY, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phone for the fish-knives, norman
Last Line: With afternoon tea-cake and scones.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


HOW TO LOOK WHEN SPEAKING, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Louisa, my love,' mrs. Manners began
Last Line: "to speak and to look as you ought!"
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


LIVING WITH MISTAKES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They won't wear boots
Last Line: In their presence.
Subject(s): Errors; Etiquette; Water; Mistakes; Fallacies; Manners; Courtesy


MANNERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather said to me
Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents; Manners; Courtesy; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MANNERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sit down, all clean and bright
Last Line: May ask me out to tea someday!
Subject(s): Children; Etiquette; Girls; Childhood; Manners; Courtesy


MODERN MANNERS, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of modern manners let me sing
Last Line: I care not when we part.'
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 30TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To all alike be courteous, meek, and kind
Last Line: To whom thy friendship shall familiar be.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


PEAS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I eat my peas with honey
Last Line: But it keeps them on the knife
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining;etiquette;food & Eating;mnemonics;peas; Manners;courtesy


POLITENESS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: If people ask me
Last Line: That they'd lay off asking.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


POLITENESS, by HARRY GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Politeness is a useful art
Last Line: The more polite you ought to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


POLITENESS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good little boys should never say
Last Line: "and, ""yes, ma'am,"" to a lady."
Subject(s): Boys; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


REMEMBER ME,' IMPLORED THE THIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be unexpected friends
Subject(s): Hospitality; Courtesy


ROSA, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How she sat there
Subject(s): Etiquette; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Manners; Courtesy


RULES AND REGULATIONS, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A short direction / to avoid dejection
Last Line: "moral: ""behave.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Subject(s): Etiquette; Mnemonics; Manners; Courtesy


TABLE MANNERS, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When teddy bears are brought to table
Last Line: As if they lived in town.
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Etiquette; Tableware; Manners; Courtesy; Cutlery; Forks; Plates


TABLE RULES FOR LITTLE FOLKS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In silence I must take my seat
Last Line: In praise for his wondrous love
Subject(s): Children;etiquette;grace; Childhood;manners;courtesy


TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND BLISS CARMAN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a curl upon her forehead and the heart of her is good
Last Line: Why she romps with mother april and behaves like anything!
Subject(s): Carman, Bliss (1861-1929); Etiquette; Girls; Manners; Courtesy


THE LOST PUDDING, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss kitty was rude at the table one day
Last Line: Without giving kitty one taste.
Subject(s): Etiquette; Food & Eating; Girls; Manners; Courtesy


TIT FOR TAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I often pass a gracious tree
Last Line: Quite probably you don't know mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we meet a gorilla
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Manners; Courtesy


WE MUST BE POLITE: 2, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door
Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


WOULD YOU CARE FOR A SMOKE OR A SHERRY?, by MOPEV [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "I wear any old bags in the country, / but one has to be soignee in town"
Alternate Author Name(s): Mopev
Subject(s): "betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984);etiquette;" Manners;courtesy