Famous Mind Your Manners Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Mind Your Manners poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous mind your manners poems. These examples illustrate what a famous mind your manners poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
See also:
...ostly mine,
Why not, you ignorant foreigner?
And the native replies
Contrariwise;
And hence, my dears, the coroner.
So mind your manners when a native, please,
And doubly when you visit
And between us all
A rapport may fall
Ecstatically exquisite.
One simple thought, if you have it pat,
Will eliminate the coroner:
You may be a native in your habitat,
But to foreigners you’re just a foreigner....Read more of this...
by
Nash, Ogden
...MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US by Ben Jonson To draw no envy, SHAKSPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways We...Read more of this...
by
Jonson, Ben
...To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name
Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;
While I confess thy writings to be such
As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much.
'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;
For silliest ignorance on these may light,
Which when it sounds at best but echoes right;
Or blind ...Read more of this...
by
Jonson, Ben
Dont forget to view our wonderful member Mind Your Manners poems.