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Famous Prudes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...CEASE, ye prudes, your envious railing,
 Lovely Burns has charms—confess:
True it is, she had one failing,
 Had a woman ever less?...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...led 
122 With his own quill, in its indigenous dew, 
123 Of an aesthetic tough, diverse, untamed, 
124 Incredible to prudes, the mint of dirt, 
125 Green barbarism turning paradigm. 
126 Crispin foresaw a curious promenade 
127 Or, nobler, sensed an elemental fate, 
128 And elemental potencies and pangs, 
129 And beautiful barenesses as yet unseen, 
130 Making the most of savagery of palms, 
131 Of moonlight on the thick, cadaverous bloom 
132 That yuccas breed, an...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace
...ith her curls. 

And one said smiling 'Pretty were the sight 
If our old halls could change their sex, and flaunt 
With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, 
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. 
I think they should not wear our rusty gowns, 
But move as rich as Emperor-moths, or Ralph 
Who shines so in the corner; yet I fear, 
If there were many Lilias in the brood, 
However deep you might embower the nest, 
Some boy would spy it.' 
At this upon the sward 
She ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...se my passion reads, 
 In papers round her baby's hair; 

She may receive and own my flame; 
 For, though the strictest prudes should know it, 
She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, 
 And I for an unhappy poet. 

Then too, alas! when she shall tear 
 The rhymes some younger rival sends, 
She'll give me leave to write, I fear, 
 And we shall still continue friends. 

For, as our different ages move, 
 'Tis so ordain'd (would Fate but mend it!), 
That I shall be past making lov...Read more of this...
by Prior, Matthew

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