GENTEEL in personage, Conduct, and equipage, Noble by heritage, Generous and free: Brave, not romantic; Learned, not pedantic; Frolic, not frantic; This must he be. Honor maintaining, Meanness disdaining, Still entertaining, Engaging and new. Neat, but not finical; Sage, but not cynical; Never tyrannical, But ever true. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DAMELUS' SONG TO HIS DIAPHENIA by HENRY CONSTABLE THE VICTORIES OF PEACE by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH FAREWELL TO EARTH by ELIZABETH DOTEN |