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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SEX Matches Found: 480 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19TH HOLE CONDOM POEM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failed poet completes '19th hole condom poem,' about a Last Line: Will be arriving in the fall in search of the author %of thenow-famous '19th hole condom poem.' Subject(s): Fame; Poetry And Poets; Sex 559, by GORDON MASSMAN Poem Source First Line: My wife and I debated this: that sex is the dominant preoccupation Last Line: Her dominant so that her breasts swing erotically through the air Subject(s): Marriage; Sex 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A BALLADE OF COLLEGE GIRLS, by F. R. BATCHELDER Poem Text First Line: What do the dear girls learn nowadays Last Line: I have been there, -- but I won't tell! Subject(s): Sex; Universities & Colleges A DISCRETE LOVE POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is for you, with your umbrella Last Line: This is for that night your body was neither here nor there Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Sex A LATE AUBADE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could be sitting now in a carrel Last Line: Ruddy-skinned pears Subject(s): Sex A LITTLE TUMESCENCE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time, I mean it: Last Line: Imp, / simply Subject(s): Sex A LOVER'S ENVY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I envy every flower that blows Last Line: All that her heart desires. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Lust; Sex A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex; Male-female Relations A PORTRAIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a slim, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed" Last Line: "her grandson, might have been my own grandsire" Subject(s): Grandparents;love;sex; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers A QUESTION OF GENDER, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dominie's daughter eloped with a suitor Last Line: And the baby was masculine, feminine, neuter. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Sex Role A SEQUENCE, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She heard the sounds of a couple having intercourse and then getting up they Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Sex A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known her too long Last Line: Of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Love; Memory; Midas; Mirrors; Sex; Women A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on the bed Last Line: Unlike any other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Self-doubt; Sex A SHY LITTLE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A love-lorn lad wooed a coy maid once Last Line: But she shook it up and down Subject(s): Comedy;sex A SUMMER CAMPAIGN, by J. H. SCRANTON Poem Text First Line: I've travelled from the coast of maine Last Line: Just sixteen sofa pillows. Subject(s): Promiscuity; Sex ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR OF POINTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our eyelids pushed down as if by a big darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Rape; Sex; Violence AFFAIR, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Was there ever an option? For example, Last Line: Scheduled in the distance, coming on, pulling through. Subject(s): Sex; Solitude AFTER A DARK WINTER, by ELIZABETH TIBBETTS Poem Source First Line: Medium is best, the two friends agree Last Line: Waiting to enter real lives Subject(s): Love; Sex; Women AFTERMATH, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Measuring all things as a man, Last Line: Remind the sun of promises to keep. Subject(s): Dreams; Sex; Sleep AFTERWARDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we sat side by side Last Line: Admiring each other's reflections. Subject(s): Sex AGAINST COUPLING, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in praise of the solitary act Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Sex AGAINST COUPLING, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in praise of the solitary act Last Line: That gap between the sunday papers and lunch Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Sex ALMOST THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard to imagine getting Subject(s): Passion; Sex ALWAYS UNSUITABLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore little teeth of pearls around her neck. Subject(s): Sex; Conduct Of Life AND NOW WINTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: And now, winter. Sunlight pales the air. Last Line: The interloper light, our thighs suffice. Subject(s): Sex; Winter ANDROGYNY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They nestle in the hairs of your chest Last Line: Suckling her thirst at a man's breast. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES, by HAROLD BORDWELL Poem Source First Line: When an englishman %and a german frau Last Line: Says she. He: %'like a snowplow!' Subject(s): Relationships; Sex ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This chair I trusted, lass, and I looted the leaves Last Line: What should have been a season of calm weather Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Women; Desire; Sex AS IF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it took Last Line: Having risen all night to see you Subject(s): Passion; Sex AS IF A FIST OF PENNIES HAD BEEN BURIED ALONGSIDE ITS BOWL, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of their facticity, occasion of the angel's wee victory over the beast Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex AUTOGRAPHS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is blood: close with your lover and bite down Last Line: P.S. Have a wonderful summer and a wonderful life Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Sex BALLATETTA, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light became her grace and dwelt among Last Line: Lest they should parch too swiftly, where she passes. Subject(s): Sex BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL FOR CROWING THE SINGERS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Return to our life of wonder and regret Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Lust; Sex BILLY, by LYN FERLO Poem Source First Line: Billy came through the office today Last Line: It's a lot cooler now Subject(s): Air Conditioning - Repairing; Sex BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Loving wild signs of orgiastic art Last Line: Men are happy %trampling each other %to hear her sing. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Music And Musicians; Sex; Singing And Singers BLACKOUT SONNETS, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Teenagers; Sex; Abortion BLANK VERSE FOR A FAT DEMANDING WIFE, by JIM LINDSEY Poem Source First Line: As I roll back from you Last Line: I don't come %every fifteen seconds Subject(s): Hate; Sex BLIND MAN'S HOUSE, by PAUL KELLER Poem Source First Line: This was her father's couch in the house of her father Last Line: His daughter's footsteps pass down the hall, %loving her Subject(s): Blindness; Fathers And Daughters; Sex BLOOD, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: She comes to the door Last Line: Red threads. %the same red Subject(s): Blood; Menstruation; Sex BLUNDERING, by JUTTA SCHUTTING Poem Source First Line: A house wall that I must climb down to get to you Subject(s): Sex BODY IS A SUSPECT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its rights. It is a suspect Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Human Rights; Nudity; Sex BODY IS THE FLOWER, by JAMES CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: So bondage is a big part of it, after all Last Line: Act. The body is the flower of the going back Subject(s): Sex BOOK TITLED THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY FOUND IN THE HYDRANGEA IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A photograph ripped out Last Line: That zorabedian was an armenian is also true Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Books; Sex; Sex Role BREEDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You have two choices with a fast bitch Last Line: But don't breed her at all Subject(s): Sex; Women BRIDE AND GROOM, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: The river lies Last Line: The tide. . . . Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIEF CASES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was then that carrying brief cases Last Line: Withdrawn into the dark / gave birth Subject(s): Briefcases; Sex Roles BRINGING DESIRE TO THE FIELDS, by AMY NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: The farmer makes love to his wife in the field Last Line: Of hours. On this and all the world's resources, %she lingers, lit up like a votive Subject(s): Farm Life; Sex CALL, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: A man opens a magazine Last Line: And they both %listen to it Subject(s): Disability; Sex; Telephones CATS LIKE ANGELS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sex CATS LIKE ANGELS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sex CAZORLA, by MILES WAGGENER Poem Source First Line: I remember taking off your shirt Last Line: And sat listening with the bats at the mouth %of a mule trail and a spring Subject(s): Relationships; Sex CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: We're watching you! Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex; Parenthood CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: And the plumbing would howl from hell, 'we're %watching you' Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I don't change I'll die, she said Last Line: Genesis in bed Subject(s): Change; Love; Sex CONDITION OF THE WORLD, AUGUST 1997, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Channel 4 says latex kills slowly Last Line: Lub dubbed like a fetal kitten in a red silk sack. %how clean the body was, split open Subject(s): Earth; News; Sex CONSTANT FEELINGS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some acts I could never, not Last Line: Which are lives, but do not depend on lives. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Sex CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN'S GENITALS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh this world and oh this dear worldbody Last Line: And how it is here and it was always here Subject(s): Reproductive System; Sex; Sex Organs; Genitalia CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CUNTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The venus de milo didn't have one, at least no pussy Last Line: Daphne, your fortune moistens. Stand. Bend down. / smile Subject(s): Reproductive System; Sex Organs; Genitalia CURSE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: What does it take Last Line: An immense peruvian river, %dark as a wineclot Subject(s): Bodies; Sex; Women CUTTING A COLLAGE, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: Thank god I wasn't there when it happened- Last Line: In a space that never makes the page %in a gap that never stops healing Subject(s): Collaboration; Love; Sex DANCER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have ruled %for forty years Last Line: I wonder, %the dancer or the dance? Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Men; Old Age; Sex; Virginity DELIGHT IN DISORDER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet disorder in the dress Last Line: Is too precise in every part. Variant Title(s): Sweet Disorder;the Poetry Of Dress (1) Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Love; Sex DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas Last Line: Shall time entomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity DISCIPLINE, by MICHAEL WURSTER Poem Source First Line: The children are coming to you Last Line: They are singing a song about adult sex. You %are thinking about discipline Subject(s): Discipline; Sex DOXYCYCLENE BLUES, by PHILIP ORR Poem Source First Line: My dick hurts and so does my ex-girlfriend's boyfriends' Last Line: The way things are going, I always will Subject(s): Pain; Sex; Sickness DRAWING 101, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asked about the meaning of his abstract Last Line: Fucking, he says, just fucking Subject(s): Drawing; Sex; Youth DRUNK, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I open the letter Last Line: Where it turns my actual life %into a smoking slag Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Letters; Sex DUSTY APPLES IN A DUSTY KITCHEN. FERNS BRUSHING THEIR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the haulm. Swinging its plums freely. Awhistling Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Lust; Sex EARLY SHOW, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here even the darkness Subject(s): Flop-houses; Sex ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery EDUCATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Bifurca, a species of fruit fly Last Line: A fly may educate a man Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Flies; Knowledge; Reproductive System; Sex EFFECTS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION ON LANGUAGE, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: We've stolen from the carpenter 'erection,' 'stud,' and 'screw' Last Line: And gave the banks our 'premature withdrawal' Subject(s): Language; Sex ELEGY: 18. LOVES PROGRESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever loves, if he do not propose Last Line: As who by clyster gave the stomack meat. Variant Title(s): Love's Elegies: Elegy 13, Love's Progress Subject(s): Sex ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Sex; Jones, Elvin (1927-2004); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sex END OF THE WEEKEND, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dying firelight slides along the quirt Last Line: Some small grey fur is pulsing in its grip Subject(s): Sex EROGENOUS ZONES, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge of the nose Subject(s): Sex; Body, Human ESSAY: WHEN I THINK OF SEX, A MOIST FOG, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of sex, some people Last Line: Person until I am dead. Subject(s): Essays; Sex EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EXTRACT FROM THE EDWIN MEESE COMMISSION ON PORNOGRAPHY IN AMERICA, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: They're out there now, slick Last Line: And shut your eyes Subject(s): Pornography; Sex; United States FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women; Sex Organs; Genitalia FALLING INTO SAND, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Yearning rests in the sea Last Line: Or change books into nipples Subject(s): Nuclear War; Sex FALSE ADVERTISING, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Ramses drops strength label. - the Last Line: You're superman now, not clark kent Subject(s): Advertising; Sex FANTASY BLOCK, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to have a sexual fantasy Subject(s): Fantasy; Sex FETISH, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: I. Analytically (after otto fenichel) %it doesn't take much. Most classically Last Line: She thinks, 'goddess, it must rankle' Subject(s): Fetishes; Reproductive System; Sex FIRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Subject(s): Italy; Sex; Italians FIRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Italy; Sex FIRST SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we found your father's playboy Last Line: In the dark and entered manhood Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Fathers; Homosexuality; Love; Sex; Sickness FIRST TIME, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: The motel clerks were deformed, slow-witted Last Line: Of hooks and keys and numbers Subject(s): Sex FIRST TIME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind shut doors, in shadowy quarantine Last Line: And almost gently asks: are you a jew? Subject(s): Sex FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 1, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember I remember I lay my young bullocks Last Line: Siempre go try your luck on the mountain if it pleases ye Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Past; Relationships; Sex FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Last Line: Otherwise not a leaf stirs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex FORTY-FIVE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was forty-five I lay for hours Last Line: And for a while was mine. Subject(s): Salamanders; Sex FOUR THEMES ON A VARIATION: SEX, by G. E. MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Tough talkers, their brain-pans fried black Last Line: As the urge to keep tuned, even stars %seems to itch for more, for a squeeze %of all our drizzling n Subject(s): Sex FRANCOIS VILLON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our good duke charles, you tell me, fain would know Last Line: A sorry vintage. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Complaints; Sex; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); War; Joy; Delight FRAU FREUD, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, for arguments sake, let us say Subject(s): Sex Organs FROM OOLONG TO OOMPAH, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A thin, lightweight, translucent %person opens Last Line: Utters or exclaims ooooh %aware of true nature Subject(s): Sex; Women FULL OF IT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sex by remote control she'll never forget Last Line: I love you for it %and you're full of it.' Subject(s): Sex FURY OF COCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex GAME OF NETTLES, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torture, we called, stripped to the waist Last Line: Not knowing we were masochists Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Pain; Sex GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GHAZALS: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is thin and watery; fish in the air Last Line: Him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Medicine; Night; Sex; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Bedtime GHAZALS: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hotel room (far above the city) I said I bet you Last Line: But rats, raccoon bones, snake skeletons and dark. Black dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Sex GIRL IN THE WILLOW TREE, by CAROLYN MAISEL Poem Source First Line: The girl in the willow tree is skipping church Last Line: To touch herself Subject(s): Children; Sex GLUTTON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the atlas roams a glutton Last Line: Loathing each other's carrion company Subject(s): Gluttony; Hate; Sex GORY GAMBOLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I love my adversary's leg to kick Last Line: "that, that is heaven" Subject(s): Sex GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked / on top of the covers and woke Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked %on top of the covers and woke Last Line: Even in mexico even for us' Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex GUY TALK, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son asks, what does it mean when you're Subject(s): Machismo; Men; Reproductive System; Sex Organs; Genitalia HARD COCK DISSERTATION, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: Some hard cock blondie? Last Line: Where cock & cunt are the last wild remnant %of the animal mind - or the day Subject(s): Reproductive System; Sex HARD LUCK, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: Allen jones could not believe his luck Last Line: All he'd really wanted was to fuck Subject(s): Luck; Sex HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? (1), by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my girlfriends were talking about sex Last Line: Finally turns tender side up as the lock untwists Subject(s): Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Sex HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? (2), by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get nervous, it's so hard not to Last Line: That should crack a world, but doesnt slip's, free Subject(s): Erotic Love; Literary Form; Sex HERE THAT SAD BODY LIES WITH ITS RUBYMEATED VESTIBULE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Staple it to the armadillo Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex HESPER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes are like the evening air Last Line: Of womanhood arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Puberty; Sex HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 8), by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't I said that part of having intercourse Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 8), by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't I said that part of having intercourse Last Line: And in falsetto (we might even say mawkishly), %the woman's mouth makes a sound like the word mama Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 9), by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I help myself, as one woman said to me about wanting Variant Title(s): Considering How Exaggerated Music Is Subject(s): Sex HMMMM (TEN EXCERPTS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT-PART SEQUENCE - 9), by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I help myself, as one woman said to me about wanting Last Line: To concentrate on the man's trunk instead of his face, which in this case, %is so impassive. Serious Variant Title(s): Considering How Exaggerated Music I Subject(s): Sex HOLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She knows she loves him day and night Last Line: Even through a hole in the door. Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Sex HORNY DILEMMA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have long desired to shine Last Line: To martial's brief excursions Subject(s): Sex HORNY DILEMMA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have long desired to shine Last Line: To martial's brief excursions Subject(s): Sex HOW TO TALK ABOUT SEX, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Handspring: don't speak of little cousin trudy who was so curious Last Line: The jewel at the heart of the lotus Subject(s): Sex HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia I SUPPOSE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhetoricians might call this Last Line: Henry miller used to describe it Subject(s): Sex IF, by PATRICK LANE Poem Source First Line: Like that dying woman in mexico Last Line: I am one of those who laughed %when the burro dropped her on the floor Subject(s): Sex IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She could tell he loved her. He wanted her there Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Gentility; Sex; Desire; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Man be my metaphor Subject(s): Sex; Innocence; Reality IF WE WERE HONEST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I tell you that cultural ritual is an artifice Subject(s): Sex IN A MOMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The girl's body leaves all cold behind Last Line: In a moment, earth is paradise. Subject(s): Girls; Sex IN A PIERCING AND SUCKING SPECIES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't see anybody Last Line: Unchewed %newly in leaf Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): In A Kpircing And Sucking Specie Subject(s): Nature; Sex IN JIMMY'S GRILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in blue-jean shorts\ Last Line: Where a beer gut rolls like a melon on the green pool table. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Country Life; Country Music; Sex; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IN THE SUPERMART', by MELISSA HUSEMAN Poem Source Last Line: I fluttered my skirts like the sea Subject(s): Food And Eating; Markets; Sex IRON FEVER: MONKEY WRENCH LULLABY, by STEPHAN TORRE Poem Source First Line: On my back in the dark %stroking the rear end Last Line: Getting laid on my back %with wrenches in my fists Subject(s): Sex; Tools JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent Last Line: John anderson, my jo. Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOY ON THE EDGE OF VERTIGO, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: Today will I risk what I love Last Line: For so may I be forever, infested, with angels Subject(s): Lust; Sex JOYS OF SEX, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I worry about my reputation Last Line: Well, I can't help if I'm not dead yet Subject(s): Aging; Sex KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex; Bereavement KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Last Line: Last chance of mine and naomi - to god's perfect darkness - %death, stay thy phantoms! Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex KALEIDOSCOPE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sex before my husband Last Line: Crowded against our window, shivering. Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KINSEY REPORT, by JUTTA SCHUTTING Poem Source First Line: Dream - or angel-honey Subject(s): Sex KNOW-NOTHING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I know nothing about sex Subject(s): Knowledge; Sex KNOW-NOTHING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I know nothing about sex Last Line: In the balance with birth, and ignorance with love Subject(s): Knowledge; Sex LAB RSEARCH (SEX), by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruddy x-rayed the lovers bound in bliss Last Line: “don't see the point,” he puzzled. “what's to this?” Subject(s): Sex LATE AUBADE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could be sitting now in a carrel Last Line: And some blue cheese, and crackers, and some fine %ruddy-skinned pears Subject(s): Sex LET MY MOUTH TAKE YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Resilient and coarse as a marigold Last Line: Like a gulp of velveteen Subject(s): Mouths; Reproductive System; Sex LETTERS TO YESENIN: 6, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit and butter. She smelled like the skin of an apple Last Line: All must pass as a monk's tale, a future lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sex; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine LEWINSKI STEW, by PAT D'AMICO Poem Source First Line: Monica squealed while linda was taping Last Line: Though I fear she will soon have him fixed Subject(s): Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946); Lewinski, Monica; Politics; Presidents, United States; Sex LIE DOWN WITH A MAN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought I had to Last Line: Two things I was afraid of Subject(s): Men; Sex; Fear LINES FROM THE TESTAMENT, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Solitude: you must be very strong Last Line: Where you must be wretched and strong, brothers to the dogs Subject(s): Sex; Solitude LINGAM AND THE YONI, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Sex LITTLE TUMESCENCE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time, I mean it: Last Line: Situation, such outrageous %limitation, %limp, %simply Subject(s): Sex LIVING WITH LIMITS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The giant water bug of the southern united states Last Line: Have more limited powers Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Insects; Sex LONG JOHN BROWN AND LITTLE MARY BELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little mary bell had a fairy in a nut Last Line: And there goes miss bell with her fusty old nut Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sex LOVE IN BLACK AND WHITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth salty with the taste of your flesh Last Line: Across the sparrow's waking. Subject(s): Love; Sex LOVE POEM, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Me on my back, you your front Last Line: Now I lay me down on you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Erotic Love; Pleasure; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 32, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold your head tight between Last Line: Boat on the river of heaven Subject(s): Erotic Love; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget %the perfumed dusk inside the Last Line: After a long night of love Subject(s): Memory; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making love with you Last Line: But to drink the entire sea Subject(s): Love; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wake me Last Line: Of the first morning of the world Subject(s): Morning; Sex LOVE SONG, by LYNN STRONGIN Poem Source First Line: Sex is a spiritual sojourn Last Line: You are still a land of loneliness to me Subject(s): Sex LOVE'S HARVEST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond lunatic forbear, why dost thou sue Last Line: Do in effect but cuckold their own bed. Subject(s): Premarital Sex LOVE'S PRAYER, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, like religion, has its prayer Last Line: "give me this day my daily bread!" Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Sex LUST, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If only he could touch her Last Line: An orange to feel fingernails %run a seam through him Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Sex MADAME DELUXE'S ADULT VIDEO AND ALL-NITE DELI, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Here's a preview: %the universe seems tender Last Line: Maybe shrink-wrapped in the cooler of tongues Subject(s): Erotic Love; Motion Pictures; Sex MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 6. WHAT TO DO IF YOUR BRIDE IS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: If your bride expects intercourse more than three times a week Last Line: Till there is a contemptuous look in her eye Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage; Sex MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Last Line: How lbullish she was on french kissing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex MAGRITTE'S LE VIOL: THE RAPE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was shown, at first, behind a black curtain Last Line: Good taste's sword faithfully flaming %between what's wicked and me Variant Title(s): Magritte's Le Vio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Distrust; Rape; Sex MATING, by GLADYS MELVILLE INT-HOUT Poem Source First Line: All night the frenzied unicorn Last Line: To keep her tryst with him Subject(s): Reproduction; Sex; Unicorns MIDNIGHT SONGS: 2, by TZU YEH Poem Source First Line: I had not fastened my sash over my gown Last Line: Blame the spring wind Subject(s): Sex MINDBITE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She looked to him like something to eat Last Line: He changed his mind after one bite. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Sex MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees! Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs MISS MILLY O'NAIRE, by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER Poem Text First Line: She is not young and fair Last Line: Miss millionaire. Subject(s): Comedy; Love; Old Age; Puberty; Sex; Ugliness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes MONSOON, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: What do you think about sex Last Line: Within my dad's colored sock drawer Subject(s): High School Students; Sex; Teenagers; Youth MORGENSTERN'S WOUND, by CLIFFORD METH Poem Source First Line: Morganstern's affair carved a wound in him Last Line: Like he was brilliant & funny %& whole Subject(s): Marriage; Sex MOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was one summer's morning on the fourteenth day of may Subject(s): Sex MY BICYLE HAS NO BELLS, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: The cycle has no bell, you better give way Last Line: Alas, a person who eats meat daily hungers for more and more of it Subject(s): Bicycles; Igede (african People); Sex MY LIFE WITH THE VIRGIN MARY, by JOHN SUROWIECKI Poem Source First Line: Always the blue veil the blue sky the blue countenance Last Line: And the light must find her through tiny walls of ice %as blue as forget-me-nots and jittery Subject(s): Faith; Sex; Sin MY MISTAKE, by E. P. G. Poem Text First Line: I met her on a pullman car Last Line: "a cinder in your eye." Subject(s): Comedy; Errors; Sex; Mistakes; Fallacies MYSELF IN AN ANANTOMICAL CHART OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, by TAKAHASHI MUTSUO Poem Source First Line: The tip of my existence, the soldering iron of wet hot flesh Subject(s): Sex MYSELF WITH A GLORY HOLE, by TAKAHASHI MUTSUO Poem Source First Line: Lord, when will it be? Last Line: Parched eye was looking in Subject(s): Sex NATIONAL NUDIST CLUB NEWSLETTER, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the unisex nursery's toilet my undershirt falls Subject(s): Passion; Sex NEAR KITAMI STATION ON THE ODAKYU LINE, by ITO HIROMI Poem Source First Line: The odakyu line is always crowded I go on standing Last Line: And soaked my panties Subject(s): Erotic Love; Sex; Subways NEW LOVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With these dire portents Last Line: The moon has become the moon again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Sex NIGHTS AND DAYS OF NINETEEN-SOMETHING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer with other men's lovers, fumbles Last Line: Come again for me. Take me to the boy Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Relationships; Sex; Summer NINTH TIME I SCREWED OPHELIA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But then I woke up in nebraska Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sex NO MEDDLING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why can't we leave the saints alone? Last Line: A soul at ease has gone beyond all right and wrong. Subject(s): Morality; Saints; Sex NO THANKS: 16, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I feel said he Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sex NO THANKS: 16, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I feel said he Last Line: (you are mine said she Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Sex NOT THE ARMS RACE, by SAMUEL ABRAMS Poem Source First Line: I read the new york times Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Sex NOVELS IN HAIKU: TWO: THE SATIRE, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: They met for burgers. No snow fell, just smog shrouding. He drove Last Line: They made a movie. She betrayed him, crushed his pride. The %husband directed Subject(s): Marriage; Motion Pictures; Sex ODE TO BALTHUS, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old dirty, dirty. Old dirty, dirty handful of skin & motion Subject(s): Sex; Virginity; Vestals OF USELESS MEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Men are usless!' she said, 'simply useless! Last Line: I need a panther to lick my cunt!' Subject(s): Relationships; Sex ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While man and woman still are incomplete Last Line: But, friend, man - woman is not woman-man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sex Role ON THE EVE OF THEIR MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would open its legs like a book Last Line: Though never in the wake of its flensing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destructio Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bodies; Nuclear War; Sex ONE WRITING AGAINST HIS PRICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Base metal hanger by your master's thigh Last Line: Or I'll ne'er draw thee, but against a post Subject(s): Hate; Sex ONENESS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As surely as it is about air Last Line: Water will seep between fingers %for the unknown must remain unknown Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sex; Togetherness ORGASM OVER MT. ARARAT, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: I don't suppose our stars are crossed Last Line: We fly. Bumper to bumper. Backseat to the sky Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Sex; Superman OUT-BREEDERS, by TIMOTHY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: To breed us out is a mistranslation Last Line: Moving south to another city that could stand to be so blessed Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Sex; Winter OUTFOXED, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red foxes are not allowed Last Line: All brought to by fox news Subject(s): Foxes; Sex; Racism OUTSIDE THE OPERATING ROOM OF THE SEX-CHANGE DOCTOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the operating room of the sex-change doctor, a tray / of penises Subject(s): Sex; Surgery OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sex Role; Mythology OZARK ODES: LAKE RETURN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sharp rock on shore Last Line: Nothing came up there Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Sex PARADISE IS NOT A PLACE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Bread in our mouths, %lightning in the belly of a whale Last Line: With gulls flapping gently around our peak Subject(s): Sex; Travel; United States PEANUT BUTTER, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am always hungry Subject(s): Peanut Butter; Sex; Appetite; Conduct Of Life PINEAPPLES AND POMEGRANATES, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple Subject(s): Pineapples; Sex PITY DON JUAN, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: He gathers love affairs as boys do stamps Last Line: He cannot drown himself in any eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Don Juan; Love Affairs; Sex PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touching you / slipping fingers between your thighs Last Line: Which only the other can hear. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Sex POEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, sex. How do you do Last Line: But when it is … Subject(s): Sex POEM UNWRITTEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks the poem of your body Subject(s): Sex POMEGRANATE LIPS, by D. TRINIDAD HANKS Poem Source First Line: Lips like pomegranates Last Line: I had to 9-1-1 the law Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pomegranates; Sex PORCELAIN, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a long forgetfulness lifts suddenly, and what Subject(s): Sex PORTRAIT WITH BROWN HAIR, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days, the days! Last Line: In mexico, still a virgin Subject(s): Hair; Sex POST MORTEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A certain erratic %erotic erratum Last Line: Of timothy's attic, %or was it his closet? Subject(s): Sex POST-DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: You have come to the right place Last Line: And tie me up before I can think of ways %to swallow you Subject(s): Moods; Sex POTENTIAL, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: He steps up behind his wife Last Line: Hum, she says again. %it's got potential Subject(s): Relationships; Sex POWER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of the penis remains Subject(s): Sex Organs; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women PRAYER, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbie sat the class down and told us how Subject(s): Religious Education; Sex; Prayer; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PREFERENCE, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: Some people need a harsher kind of love Last Line: I'll take the gentle, easy way we move Subject(s): Love; Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear reader, though my uncombed verse be queer Last Line: Or else read on (I notice that you're staring Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why the laughter, witless female? Last Line: That my crotch supports this column Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 11, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Just don't get caught. I won't exact a tithe Last Line: Your asshole won't have any wrinkles left Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some old lady scarcely younger Last Line: Looks like epicurus yawning.' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 13, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Girl, watch your cunt; boy, keep your ass from grief Last Line: Another threat awaits the bearded thief Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 14, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Step right up, come one, come all, don't Last Line: Even if he reeks of whorehouse Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 15, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He whose not too honest fingers Last Line: I've got balls enough to spill it Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 16, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Such apples as once brought atlanta down Last Line: Has added, nude priapus, to your hoard Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 17, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What's the plaint against me, watchman? Last Line: Let him be the wider for it! Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 18, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My cock's great size results in one delight Last Line: I've never fucked a girl who wasn't tight Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 19, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Should the bare-ass pavement-pounder Last Line: Even turn on phaedra's stepson Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In your honor, lord priapus Last Line: Please accept as well intentioned Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 20, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jove wields the lightning, neptunes's trident-lord Last Line: But it's my hard-on that inspires fear Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 21, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This heap betrays me: please, priapus, say Last Line: I bought in town and then passed off as mine! Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 22, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If boy or man, or woman steals I hump say Last Line: (in converse order) pussy, head, and rump Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 23, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whosoever steals a rosebud Last Line: Cock assaults his belly button Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 24, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bailiff of a fertile garden plot Last Line: For just-one fucking cabbage?' 'that's the deal.' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 25, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This proud scepter which now severed Last Line: Hairline inside thieving innards Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 26, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friends, there has to be a limit Last Line: Now my side hurts and a morbid %spittle is expectorated Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 27, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The public's darling quintia, first-class Last Line: To keep her fan club at its horny best Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 28, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Since you fail to ponder, scarcely Last Line: I can rise to the occasion Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 29, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I could simply die, priapus Last Line: Cock and cunt are standard usage Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I could have said obscurely: 'cast about Last Line: Well, what did you expect? My muse is crass Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 30, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Scythed god whose part is greater than the whole Last Line: You'll need that spring to get your mouth in shape.' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 31, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While you acknowledge no wrongheaded wish to lay waste Last Line: That you'll ve able to exit right out of your ass Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 32, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Drier than the sun-dried raisins Last Line: It's as though I've grazed a lantern Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 33, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old-time priapuses could take their pick Last Line: Unless my helping hand can ease the load Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 34, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the horny god was feted Last Line: Sent to you in dedication Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 35, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You'll get fucked, thief, for the first time Last Line: You'll give fuck and suck in sequence Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 36, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Each of us has some bodily trait that's well known Last Line: But it's priapus who's much better cocked than the rest Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 37, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why, you ask, do painted gonads Last Line: Cock. It was a thing accomplished Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 38, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whatever it is, I shouldn't hesitate Last Line: If I get what I want, you'll get your loot Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 39, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beauty renders hermes pleasing Last Line: If, that is, her cunt's not stupid Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With this gift of dirty pictures Last Line: Just like in the illustrations Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 40, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Famed telethusa, of the downtown mob Last Line: To ladies of the evening, it's a god Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 41, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May all comers wax poetic Last Line: Hemorrhoidal midst the poets Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 42, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Proud aristagoras, whose vineyard lacks Last Line: Real fruit mature in payment for the fake Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 43, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You wonder, since I'm wooden front to rear Last Line: In me a rough-hewn spear will gain full credit!' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 44, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't assume each threat is uttered Last Line: Four times serve me with a blow job Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 45, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the horny god saw someone Last Line: If you curl your cock hairs, do you?' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 46, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Girl no whiter than the moors are Last Line: Such a worm-infested crotch hole Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 47, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whichever one of you throwing a party at home Last Line: Harsh aphrodisiacs vainly inflating his bone Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 48, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That that part of me is dripping Last Line: When I think of kinky wenches Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 49, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you should see unchaste obscenities Last Line: A lot more cock than overbearing sneer Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 5, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The law which (as they say) priapus coined Last Line: If in your garden I can do the dame.' Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 50, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beg your pardon, lord priapus Last Line: All around your cock, priapus Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 51, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What's going on in my garden? Who can explain Last Line: Proves beyond doubt that the threat itself serves to entice Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 52, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You there with the sticky fingers Last Line: Let me count the points of entry! Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 53, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A bunch of grapes leaves bacchus satisfied Last Line: Consider, lesser god, these apples ample Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 54, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Impose the letters cd on a staff Last Line: To picture what would sunder you in half Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 55, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who could believe it? O, the fates are fickle Last Line: Lampsacus, where the priests are all unique Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 56, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thief, you dare to laugh and even Last Line: He takes all my blow jobs for me Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 57, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rot, old crow, a mausoleum Last Line: All she needs for that is money Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 58, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let any thief whom we carelessly suffer to pass Last Line: Fruitlessly search for a fucker to answer her suit Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 59, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't pretend I didn't warn you Last Line: In a thief and out a faggot Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 6, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I'm just a wood priapus Last Line: Right up to your seventh rib bone Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 60, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you could turn graffiti into gold Last Line: You'd out-consume alcinous of old Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 61, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farmer, what's the point complaining Last Line: Poems are weighing down my branches Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 62, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleep soundly, dogs: the dog star and the maid Last Line: His well belov'd, keep watch here unafraid Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 63, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't you believe it's enough that I'm stuck in this spot Last Line: Spice up philaenis's book, was left scratching her itch Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 64, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here comes someone soft as goose down Last Line: Let him pilfer, I won't notice Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 65, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This victim from a lukewarm pigs' redoubt Last Line: At least remember to secure the gate Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 66, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You, who to avoid my manhood Last Line: In our guts you know you want it Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 67, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One syllable from pedasos, erato Last Line: Your punishment for falling in my clutches Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 68, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Forgive a hick unable to compete Last Line: But at that time I hadn't yet been fashioned Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 69, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If your mouth's all set for fig fruit Last Line: How you'll leave my cock beshitted Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 7, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I can't say words like kiss, cuss, miss, or bless Last Line: Alath, fair thibilanth! I want your s! Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 70, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That hick farmer's got my number fruit Last Line: I should blow away your watchdogs Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 71, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You'll learn, should you steal apples in my care Last Line: How losing sweets provokes me to despair Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 72, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Keep watch over the orchard, attentive priapus! Last Line: And I'll repay you with my skinny arm Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 73, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why all these sidelong looks, you shameless tarts? Last Line: If you see fit to dedicate your altar Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 74, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On boys and girls the middle parts get mated Last Line: For bearded men my cock's more elevated Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 75, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jove, you hold dodona sacred Last Line: Cnidos, paphos lovely venus Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 76, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What's the difference if I'm aged Last Line: Priam, nestor, and tithonus Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 77, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look at how upset you've got me Last Line: Don't I beg you, be so watchful, %nor infibulate priapus Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 78, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May all the deities keep me from chewing like you Last Line: That she can't walk due to gross inflammation of clit Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 79, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though, priapus, you're stuck with a well-stiffened cock Last Line: Who scribbled the verses the insults about you are made in Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 8, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Honest matrons, pray retire Last Line: They too look on cocks with pleasure Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 80, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: But ain't it long, and ain't it good and thick Last Line: I think the latter fault is more to blame Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 81, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While you're alive I'm hopeful, rustic guard Last Line: Come. Bless me, stiff priapus; make me hard Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 82, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once public treasurer, a farmer now Last Line: These - but I'm on the make. You guess the rest Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 83, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What's this? What does the anger of the gods ordain? Last Line: Until our playful love has burst my tender breast Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 84, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spring roses, autumn fruits, and summer grain Last Line: Might burn to keep the lazy farmers warm Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 85, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It's me, o passerby, the poplar tree Last Line: My pecker off and use it as a club Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 86, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I watch, o youths, this farmhouse and this place Last Line: You'll do your stealing there unless you're crazy Subject(s): Sex PRIAPUS POEMS: 9, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You ask why I don't hide my filthy charms? Last Line: Without my weapon I'd be left defenseless Subject(s): Sex PRIVACY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dense fog shuts down Last Line: A man and a woman cry out with love Subject(s): Forests; Privacy; Sex PRIZE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Beyond the roost of thought she lived, Last Line: For soldiers wearing purple bruises %as their only prize. Subject(s): Prostitution; Sex RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology REDISCOVERY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I go over your earthly body Last Line: Waiting a marriage of heaven and hell in the bed of this world Subject(s): Beauty; Explorers; Sex; Women; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REMINDER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: There was a man in the bar tonight Last Line: That, at least, I could erase Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Disability; Paralysis; Sex ROOMS BY THE NIGHT OR HOUR, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: Remember how we used to meet Last Line: Hidden by last night's news Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Sex ROWING ACROSS THE LAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stop it. It's sunday Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dragonflies; Nature; Sex RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sue ella tucker was barely in her teens Subject(s): Abandonment; Sex; Desertion RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sue ella tucker was barely in her teens Last Line: Telling how it happened. She left out %a large part of the story but told it well Subject(s): Abandonment; Sex RUFINO TAMAYO'S WAITING WOMAN, by MATTHEW BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: In the foreground, there's a woman wrapped Last Line: Looks hopelessly remote in the far distance Subject(s): Sex; Women SAFEGUARD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He slipped the future in her mouth Last Line: What has yet to happen. Subject(s): Future; Sex SEA HAG IN THE CAVE OF SLEEP, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Words whirl her round in pools Last Line: I come out from between my own legs %into this world Subject(s): Men; Sex; Women SEAFARER, by JOANNE MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: She is a thief tonight Last Line: And smaller 'til he is a %ghost Subject(s): Sex SECOND STORY, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the other side of the arc-light-level window Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Sex SEDUCTIVE PRODUCE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Imagine peaches, %the fine hair of their navels Last Line: Into the under-tofu of your flesh Subject(s): Grocers; Seduction; Sex; Vegetables SELDOM-NOTED SEX DIFFERENCE, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: He could fight and was good at a riddle Last Line: When she peed, could get rid of her piss quick Subject(s): Sex Role SEX, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first few nights of the new year, a week Last Line: In the night. The cat rubs against the man's legs Subject(s): Sex; Aging; Impotence SEX AND ARCHITECTURE, by RUPERT MALLIN Poem Source First Line: I am invited to house warmings on snow hill heights Last Line: Even the dust is frisky Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Parties; Sex SEX EDUCATION, by IDA VALLERUGO Poem Source First Line: Searching for tools Last Line: My father. She put the magazines back behind the cans %on the shelf Subject(s): Education; Sex SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks Last Line: Was hitting what he made Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex; Historians; Theology SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks Last Line: Watching what he had made Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex SEX IS NOT IMPORTANT, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sex SEX LIFE OF INSECTS, by DOUG FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: For you I'd become a nymph Last Line: My antennae will be twitching the stars Subject(s): Insects; Sex SEX LIFE OF POLITICIANS, by PETER RABBIT Poem Source First Line: The days of devil-may-care sex Last Line: Just before he comes Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Sex SEX TOYS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lined up like toy soldiers Last Line: Raise temples beneath reason & skin Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Sex; Toys SEX WITH A FAMOUS POET, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had sex with a famous poet last night Subject(s): Sex; Poetry & Poets SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If evil had style %it might well resemble Last Line: Curiosity can be mistaken %for enthusiasm and we learn %whatwe already know %for x Subject(s): Sex SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Lust; Sex; Sports SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Last Line: Single body alone in the universe %against it own best time Subject(s): Erotic Love; Lust; Sex; Sports SEX, CONSOLATION FOR MISERY, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source Last Line: Their hope in having no hope Subject(s): Sex SEX, SELS., by STEFAN BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Here then is the life-giving activity given to each man: the sexual act Last Line: The pure %good Subject(s): Sex SEXISM, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The happiest moment in a woman's life Subject(s): Sex SEXUAL JEALOUSY, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the queen mole who is unequivocal Last Line: They hope this and are ruthless in their waiting Subject(s): Nature; Sex SEXUAL PRIVACY OF WOMEN ON WELFARE, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The aclu mountain states regional office came across a %welfare application Last Line: Of a city street whose perspective %darkens with the morninglight? %document Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Privacy; Sex; Welfare SHOWER SCENE, by PAUL HAMANN Poem Source First Line: Tall and dry, you're beautiful Last Line: Eyes wide like an explorer, %mouth open, open Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Sex SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In missoula, someone has punched Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SILVER SLUR, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing stays attached to what I saw Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sex; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES SEX EDUCATION: HISTORIA SEXUALIS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In every drop of semen are seven-times-seventy Last Line: Returns, begin to move again Subject(s): Sex SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON BIRDS AND BEES & 8TH GRADE BOYS AND GIRLS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A million teeming species Last Line: Minds in the gutter again and again Subject(s): Sex SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO THE HUMAN AWARENESS CLASS: NOTES ... SEX, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Notker, sagest monk of st. Gall Last Line: Of earthly lovers becomes the song of songs Subject(s): Sex SISTERS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After hot loveless nights, when cold winds stream Last Line: Like a white candle through a shuttered hand Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Sex SIXTH GRADE, by MELANIE HOPE Poem Source First Line: I knew the dick size of every boy in my grade Last Line: I must be learning something about love Subject(s): Schools; Sex SMALL TOWN, by WILLIAM JOYCE Poem Source First Line: All the clitorises are safely %anchored with rings Last Line: Clitorises shake like turkey wattles %in the shadow of my grate. At night %I teach this forsaken tow Subject(s): Sex; Towns SO FAR OFF AND YET HERE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I know this is going to be painful Last Line: The nail of love just holds Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sex SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen Last Line: And sighing and kissing so close. Subject(s): Kisses; Prayer; Sex; Virginity; Wishes; Vestals SONG OF THE SELF-STIMULATOR, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny had a steamboat Subject(s): Self-gratification; Sex SPRING, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was %thiteen I Last Line: Fruit to come Subject(s): Children; Sex ST. VALENTINE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman's breasts Last Line: Will stand up by / that book! Subject(s): Sex STANZAS: WRITTEN AT NIGHT IN RADIO CITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If money made the mind more sane, Subject(s): Money; Sex STOLEN MOMENTS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: What happened once so now it's best Last Line: We ate an orange and there were purple flowers %on the table and we still had hours Subject(s): Love; Oranges; Passion; Sex STRANGE MEN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, I am heaven, thou art earth Last Line: Now climbing through her bedroom window Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Men; Sex STREET INSTRUCTIONS: AT THE CROTCH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While walking toward housewife wielding baby Last Line: "let it all move. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Bodies; Sex STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove, Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants) SUMMER IN THE CITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When he finished with her and the afternoon Last Line: His hands clean, smelling of soap and cigarettes Subject(s): Cities; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Man-woman Relationships; Sex SUN, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something is happening in the garden. The woman leans Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Sex SUNDAY NIGHT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the family would go to a restaurant, Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Fathers; Bad Behavior; Shame; Sex SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch any cool northern girl Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Women; Italy; Sex; Italians SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What matter that you understood no word! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Happiness; Transience; Sex; Joy; Delight; Impermanence SUSANS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Some do not have the luck %to die young. Some become Last Line: Although I was not there. I felt finally %such sorrow for those living. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Mortality; Sex TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What do you think, restless one? Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness TANKA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman without heat Last Line: Dreams of secreting milk Subject(s): Women; Sex THAT HAPPY MOMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In that happy moment when loving bodies tire Last Line: Loving bodies %scavenged and ate each other. Subject(s): Bodies; Devil; Night; Sex THAT THEY WERE AT THE BEACH - AEOLOTROPHIC SERIES, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing ball - so it's like paradise, not because it's in the past, we're Subject(s): Sex THAT THEY WERE AT THE BEACH - AEOLOTROPHIC SERIES, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing ball - so it's like paradise, not because it's in the past, we're Subject(s): Sex THE AUTHOR'S HERMAPHRODITE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Problem of sexes! Must thou likewise be Last Line: So shall it be thy son, and yet my daughter. Subject(s): Sex THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#29), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lowers standards, ha ha, sinking, steadily sinking Last Line: All these things the dead man does and more Subject(s): Death; Sex THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE CHASTE STRANGER, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the sexually active people in westport Subject(s): Sex; Suburbs THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before! Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE COPULATING GODS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing back the curls from your famous brow Last Line: They will concoct a scripture explaining this. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE END OF THE WEEKEND, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dying firelight slides along the quirt Subject(s): Sex THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Text First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans Last Line: Until it melts. Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy THE FIRST TIME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind shut doors, in shadowy quarantine Subject(s): Sex THE FORSAKEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother of god, merciful mary, hear me Subject(s): Premarital Sex; Sin; Pregnancy; Death; Dead, The THE FURY OF COCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex; Theology THE GEM IS ON PAGE SIXTY-FOUR, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ahem said the guards when anyone lingered too long Last Line: Which couldn’t be taken away & poured down the sink Subject(s): Sex THE HEALTH OF CAPTAINS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The health of captains is the sex of war Last Line: Sleep through the mornings where the captains rise Subject(s): War; Sex Role THE ICY ONE, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: I longed to be a lover Last Line: I have been raped by the icy one. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Sex THE IRIS, THAT SEXUAL FLOWER, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing in the frozen garden Last Line: That bucket, in sexual water Subject(s): Iris (flower); Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Pleasure; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 32, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold your head tight between Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget / the perfumed dusk inside the Subject(s): Memory; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making love with you Subject(s): Love; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wake me Last Line: Of the first morning of the world Subject(s): Morning; Sex THE LOVERS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is about to come. This time Last Line: If she could see it, she would never let him see. Subject(s): Pleasure; Sex THE MIDLANDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the summer night my cotswold hill Last Line: I draw the blood of england's midmost shires. Subject(s): England; Gloucestershire, England; Midlands, England; Sex; English THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For brothers laid in blood Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer Last Line: "it's hell, of course." Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares THE PETIT VIEUX, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sow your wild oats in your youth,' so we're always told Last Line: Sow your nice tame oats and then . . . Hi, boys! Let 'er rip. Subject(s): Old Age; Paris, France; Sex THE POEM UNWRITTEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks the poem of your body Subject(s): Sex THE POET LOVES A MISTRESS, BUT NOT TO MARRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love to wed Last Line: Will be content with one? Subject(s): Sex; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE POETESS'S BOUT-RIMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear phoebus, hear my only vow" Last Line: Delight Subject(s): Rhyme;sex THE RANTIN DOG THE DADDIE O'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha my babie-clouts will buy? Last Line: The rantin' dog, the daddie o't. Subject(s): Sex; Fathers THE SEXES, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the man beholds the woman Last Line: Like the subtle serpent, steals. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Sex Role THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE SISTERS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After hot loveless nights, when cold winds stream Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Sex THE SIZE OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the length of an average penis Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sexual Organs; Size & Shape; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sex Organs; Genitalia THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis Subject(s): Sex; Reproduction; Love - Erotic; Mating THE TEMPERAMENTS, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Nine adulteries, 12 liaisons, 64 fornications and something Last Line: He had to be four times cuckold. Subject(s): Sex THE THIEF, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities arise Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life THE WEDDING MORNING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread the feast, and let there be Last Line: And cathleen weeps among her streams. Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What starts with f and ends with u-c-c? Starts Subject(s): Sex THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women THERE'S HOPE FOR THE SEXUALLY INEXPERIENCED, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER Poem Source First Line: Before pretty eve was nigh adam Last Line: Poor adam was pretty naive Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THINKING ABUT SEX, by JOSEPH MILLAR Poem Source First Line: On the first night camped by the delta, with only a map Last Line: Glittering in the seine net just before they die Subject(s): Sex THIS CLOSE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the room where we lie, light Last Line: If I loved you, being this close would kill me. Subject(s): Love; Sex THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to accept women Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sex; Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to accept women Last Line: And that's my situation, folks Subject(s): Homosexuality; Sex; Women THOMAS HARDY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning after anyone's death, it is important Last Line: You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Life; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Dead, The THOSE ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Delicately copulating in a lagoon Last Line: Nor moral smartarse envoi Subject(s): Alligators; Nature; Sex THREE FLOORS: SEX, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A back room in the basement, the floor Last Line: Each square repeating the word %again Subject(s): Love; Pleasure; Sex TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity TIME WE GOT IT RIGHT, by JASON FALES Poem Source First Line: No way back to the river, %a white-sand beach cradled Last Line: I love your being there to think %better of it than saying goodbye Subject(s): Love; Sex TIMING, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Used to think when I Last Line: Are patient & don't %waste as many strokes Subject(s): Aging; Sex; Time TO HELL WITH YOUR FERTILITY CULT, I, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He had nothing to say Subject(s): Hate; Sex TO HOLD YOU, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: You tape three fingers Last Line: And I step into the mist %to hold you Subject(s): Compassion; Sex; Virginity TO THE READER: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to a private room Last Line: Before the amnesia takes them Variant Title(s): Sexual Gatha Subject(s): Sex TO THE READER: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to a private room Last Line: Before the amnesia takes them Variant Title(s): Sexual Gath Subject(s): Sex TOUCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Touch me, she said, touch me Last Line: Play fair Subject(s): Sex TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one disputes that sex Subject(s): Sex; Politics & Government TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one discusses sex Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sex TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one discusses sex Last Line: When all those secrets that kept is %masked and alien are revealed Subject(s): Politics; Sex TRACKS, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vast bedroom %a hall of air Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Sex TRACKS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: After we'd made love all %night, and morning like a gauze Last Line: Through the forest I keep following you back to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Forests; Homosexuality; Hunting; Love; Relationships; Sex; Sickness TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her scream of love ripping his head Last Line: Of a bumpy bed Subject(s): Blood; Change; Relationships; Sex TRANSVESTISM IN THE NOVELS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: When reading villette, shirlet and jane eyre Last Line: Whichever they are, and rise up together Subject(s): Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Sex TRAVELERS IN EREWHON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You open your Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Sex TRAVELERS IN EREWHON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You open your Last Line: In the country of eyes Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Sex TRUTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What do you mean by the truth of bed? Last Line: No man can fake an orgasm,' she said Subject(s): Sex; Truth TWIST AND TURN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He backs her up against the door Last Line: Midnight streets sing love is born Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Sex TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: HOTEL PHILHARMONIC, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have arrived drunk, jobless Last Line: Through the night's caesura Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Night; Sex UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Sex; Reading UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Last Line: Made love in the most remote %corner of knowledge Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Sex UPON AN HERMAPHRODITE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, or madam, choose you whether! Last Line: Coining thee a philip and mary. Subject(s): Sex UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes Last Line: O how that glittering taketh me! Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress (2);whenas In Silks My Julia Goes Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Innocence; Love; Sex; Silk URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How apt the slanderous and unciuill tongues Last Line: Favour, a while, thy tender sarcells too. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex Role URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the world how simply wonder wee Last Line: When her quills settle, thine againe shall rise. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sex Role VARIOUS POSITIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was getting on toward supper time Last Line: Her milk came in Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sex VELVET DUETS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A couple seeks a corner table in a restaurant where they may dine unobserved Last Line: Faces aglow as they enter the night air from the sill Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Man-woman Relationships; Sex VENUS, I DON'T NEED YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Let's face it, venus Last Line: And virtually no one is interested in your notion of voluptuous Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sex; Venus (goddess) VICTORY PARADE, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My girlfriend is a miracle. Subject(s): Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011); Beauty; Hair; Sex VISIT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: We lay in your mother's bed Last Line: I kept you from danger a few minutes longer Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sex WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray us and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals; Women; Sex WAYMAN IN LOVE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: At last wayman gets the girl into bed Last Line: I can see,' he begins, %'that you two have problems' Subject(s): Sex WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married him on christmas morn Last Line: Would I were dead. Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the village guesthouse Last Line: From the same soil. Subject(s): Indonesia; Marriage; Sex; Dutch East Indies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings / what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings %what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHAT EVERY BOY KNOWS, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Every boy knows what it's like Subject(s): Homosexuality; Sex WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat cum pig more than eager to drop Subject(s): Hotels; Sex; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WHEN WOMEN PLEASURE THEMSELVES, I HEARD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then move on to greatness Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sex WHISTLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She had no reputation for lust Last Line: And whistle for more. Subject(s): Lust; Sex WITHOUT SEXUAL ATTRACTION, THERE IS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "we pass each other as trains do, Subject(s): Sex; Love WITHOUT SEXUAL ATTRACTION, THERE IS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We pass each other as trains do, %whistling screams Subject(s): Sex WOMAN MOVING WITH YOU IN COITUS, by VERENA STEFAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sex; Women's Rights WOMAN WITH TONGUE SCULPTED IN CREEK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: There are no rules for sadness Last Line: And rest his crucified body %in my soft and tired lap Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Sex WORDS FROM HELL (FOR BRIAN ENSOR), by DAVID HELWIG Poem Source First Line: I was was eighteen when I came in these gate Last Line: I was eighteen when I came in these gates Subject(s): Sex WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What starts with f and ends with u-c-c? Starts Last Line: And it came %long, red and clamorous. Firetruck Subject(s): Sex YOU ASK WHY SOMETIMES I SAY STOP, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sex YOU ASK WHY SOMETIMES I SAY STOP, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sex |
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