Famous Scandalous Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Satyre on Charles II

...on 't,
'Twould break through all to make its way to ****.
Restless he rolls about from whore to whore,
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
To Carwell, the most dear of all his dears,
The best relief of his declining years,
Oft he bewails his fortune, and her fate:
To love so well, and be beloved so late.
Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an ****.
This you'd believe, had I but time to tell ye
The pains it costs to poor, laborious Nelly,
Whilst she employs hands, fingers,...Read more of this...
by Wilmot, John


Balin and Balan

...and loathing, would have past him by; 
But when Sir Garlon uttered mocking-wise; 
'What, wear ye still that same crown-scandalous?' 
His countenance blackened, and his forehead veins 
Bloated, and branched; and tearing out of sheath 
The brand, Sir Balin with a fiery 'Ha! 
So thou be shadow, here I make thee ghost,' 
Hard upon helm smote him, and the blade flew 
Splintering in six, and clinkt upon the stones. 
Then Garlon, reeling slowly backward, fell, 
And Balin by the ban...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Song of the Broad-Axe

...s and bad news; 
The door whence the son left home, confident and puff’d up; 
The door he enter’d again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas’d, broken down,
 without
 innocence, without means. 

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Her shape arises,
She, less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever; 
The gross and soil’d she moves among do not make her gross and soil’d; 
She knows the thoughts as she passes—nothing is conceal’d from her; 
She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor; 
She...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

South Africa

...he is South Africa,
And she is South Africa,
She is Our South Africa,
 Africa all over!

Bitter hard her lovers toild,
 Scandalous their paymen, --
Food forgot on trains derailed;
Cattle -- dung where fuel failed;
Water where the mules had staled;
 And sackcloth for their raiment!

So she filled their mouths with dust
 And their bones with fever;
Greeted them with cruel lies;
Treated them despiteful-wise;
Meted them calamities
 Till they vowed to leave her!

They took ship an...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Holy Grail

...le, and all she wore 
Torn as a sail that leaves the rope is torn 
In tempest: so the King arose and went 
To smoke the scandalous hive of those wild bees 
That made such honey in his realm. Howbeit 
Some little of this marvel he too saw, 
Returning o'er the plain that then began 
To darken under Camelot; whence the King 
Looked up, calling aloud, "Lo, there! the roofs 
Of our great hall are rolled in thunder-smoke! 
Pray Heaven, they be not smitten by the bolt." 
For dear to...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


The Mother Poem (two)

...'s always adoption
(we didn't have test tubes and the rest
then) and well even in the early sixties there was something
Scandalous about adopting
Telling the world your secret failure
Bringing up an alien child
Who knew what it would turn out to be?

But I wanted a baby badly
Didn't need to come from my womb
Or his seed for me to love it
And I had sisters who looked just like me
Didn't need carbon copy features
Blueprints for generations
It was my baby a baby a baby I wanted
...Read more of this...
by Kay, Jackie

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