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Abel
Not the kind that would make your prudish nature quiver in disgust
But the kind that would put men on hold to charge by the second,
As...
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Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn
George Gordon Lord Byron
Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace,
Outstript and vanquish'd In the mental...
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Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn.
George Gordon Byron
Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace,
Outstript and vanquish'd in the mental...
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Casting Off The Bow Line
Kurt Philip Behm
among thieves
Tomatoes tomattos
prudish obscene

Rules as their written
intention entwined
Good becomes bad
sight becomes...
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Days Of 1896
Constantine P. Cavafy
was totally...
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Mouldering golden spit
Norbert Tasev
Unleashed malice, jealous envy, prudish vanity: if one stresses too much, the tachycardic heart can explode like a bomb, like a...
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Prudes
Charles Edward York
Roaming the world like wicked witches
Prudish women sweep society
In utter disgust of...
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Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly!
John Keats
And the Moon, whether prudish or complaisant,
Hath fled to her bower, well knowing I want
No light in the dusk, no torch in...
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Squeamish
Wallace Dean LaBenne
What makes you...
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Stanzas To A Lady, With The Poems Of Camoëns
George Gordon Lord Byron
The old and disappointed maid;
Or pupil of the prudish school,
In single sorrow doom'd to...
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The Borough. Letter XV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Clelia
George Crabbe
Not indiscreet, perhaps, but yet more free
Than prudish nymphs allow their wit to...
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The Challenge: A Court Ballad
Alexander Pope
But should you catch the prudish itch,
And each become a coward,
Bring sometimes with you lady Rich,
And sometimes mistress...
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The Courtship of the Future
James Brunton Stephens
Now, amorous yearnings half-defined,
With prudish scruples...
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