Famous Provocatively Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudor

by Robert Louis Stevenson
 THERE'S just a twinkle in your eye
That seems to say I MIGHT, if I
Were only bold enough to try
An arm about your waist.
I hear, too, as you come and go,
That pretty nervous laugh, you know;
And then your cap is always so
Coquettishly displaced.

Your cap! the word's profanely said.
That little top-knot, white and red,
That quaintly crowns your graceful head,
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