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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ( ON A LADY INDIFFERENT TO POETRY), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You though! Die and you'll lie dumb in the dirt; nobody care, and none
Last Line: Not worth anyone's glance, lost in the vague colorless drifting dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


(HER) SHIRT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Carpet %p
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


1969, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between dances, under the strobe and smoke
Last Line: In the face, and they looked down, and eased away %on the apologetic small sob of her laugh
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ABLUTION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ABOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Endurance %man %all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ADONIS AND APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the wound death spreads into the delicate limbs
Last Line: And cry, and tear the fine threads underneath
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ADVICE TO A FRIEND, by DING MOEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cynwrig, allurer of a girl greeted by many
Last Line: By mary, than long buying of mead.'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ADVICE TO LOVERS, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way to get on with a girl
Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AEOLIAN ODE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ancient crete around love's altar where the delicate
Last Line: Of soft footsteps kept time in the choral dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AFAR, SELS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh quick-step break-neck
Last Line: Sweet from the flower-mouth %wine
Subject(s): Erotic Love


AFTER EDEN, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: His last glimpse of the former wife
Last Line: A woman, lit by a streetlamp, winding %tangles of gleaming tape on a plastic spool
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AFTER MAKING LOVE IN WINTER, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, not even a sheet on me
Last Line: Want to be born, I want to stay here %with you
Subject(s): Erotic Love


AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I can snore like a bullhorn
Last Line: This blessing love gives again into our arms
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Fathers; Men; Prayer


AGAIN YOU SLEPT WITH MR NO MAN, by YONA WALLACH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Than the fruits of a poem like this
Subject(s): Erotic Love


AGALLIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Equal to a god he seems who
Last Line: It is this we must bear, %for so ...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AGE AND LIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is success for your tongue, my children
Last Line: Are for me the same as desire for the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AGE WITHERS NOW MY FLESH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To a passion for sunlight
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AIL A LIVELY SUMMER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Said in %aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ivory %cl(asp
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AISLING, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was making my way home late one night
Last Line: She gives me back a confident 'all clear'
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


ALKAIOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Speak out whatever is fitting and right
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the other
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL COLORS TANGLED TOGETHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL LEGENDARY OBSTACLES LAY BETWEEN, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Move into the wet darkness %kissing, still unable to speak
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Reunions


ALL NIGHT LONG THE GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than the trilling nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL THAT'S (LOVED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And to men ( %larger
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL TOO OFTEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL YELLOW GOLD AND LIKE A DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would I leave her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon and pleiades
Last Line: I lie in bed, alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon, the pleiads disappear
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women


AMISH RUG, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if a one-room schoolhouse were all we knew
Last Line: We shall step over it as over a flowerbed
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rugs


AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK I. ELEGY 5. OVID IN LOVE: 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day being humid and my head
Last Line: Oh, come to me again as they you did!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AMOROUS DEBATE; LEATHER KID AND FLESHLY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds whistled, all
Last Line: Like the way the saone %joins the rhone at lyon
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Handsome horses o shiver and admire
Last Line: Than the long battle line of lydia's charioteers, %round shields and helmets
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANATOMY OF A CLICHE, SELS., by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was sent away
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AND APHRODITE SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sappho, you and my attendant eros'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND I GO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Harmony %the dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND I YEARN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I hunt
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND LET HER FIND YOU, KYPRIAN, BITTERER STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A second time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND NIGHT'S BLACK SLEEP UPON THE EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND NOW I SHALL SING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To delight my friends
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND ONE FOR HIS MISTRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, cyprian, let her find you
Last Line: He is dying, cytherea, adonis the delicate. What shall we do? %'beat your breasts, girls, and tear y
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND SINCE YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For I can't bear to keep house together %being the elder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than the svelte gyrinno
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THERE, WHEN THEY HAD STIRRED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come to our new kinsman
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the responsibility ( %nor many
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOU, DIKA, BIND LOVELY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aside from those who go ungarlanded
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOU, MY DIKA, CROWN YOUR LOVELY LOCKS WITH GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With flowers, and turn away from the ungarlanded
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOUR BOY'S BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have the balance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANGEL, by ANDREW ELLIOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think to make love to a nurse would be perfect
Last Line: Loving everything that happens under her skin
Subject(s): Disease; Erotic Love; Love


ANNUS MIRABILIS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sexual intercourse began
Last Line: (though just too late for me) - %between the end of the chatterley ban %and the beatles' first lp
Subject(s): Bands; Beatles, The; Erotic Love; Music And Musicians


ANOINTING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bedroom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you
Last Line: I think that someone will remember us in another time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER TO THE SAME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you
Last Line: Of hades, too, you'll wander, flittering after faded corpses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APHRODISIAC, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She gave it out as if it were
Last Line: Rumour has it she's taken to rouge again
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


APHRODITA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Seafoam
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITA DRESSED IN AN EMBROIDERY OF FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Throughout the seige
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITE OF THE FLOWERS AT KNOSSOS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete and come to this holy temple
Last Line: And mingle our celebration wit sud- %den joy
Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knosso
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature


APOCALYPSE, by KWON ILSONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 7 p.M. At kwanghwamun
Last Line: My dangling neck suspended in the void
Subject(s): Erotic Love


APPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fruit-gatherers
Last Line: Too high to pick
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ARBOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He seems to be a god, that man
Last Line: From the narrow between
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ARKHEANASSA AND GORGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shall be known as
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AROUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Clouds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AROUND THE CORNER FROM FRANCIS BACON, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Nostalgia


ARSEHOLE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is shy as a gathered eyelet
Last Line: I fed that famished mouth my ambergris
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ARTIST, by HAN YONG-WOON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm no artist but in bed
Last Line: On the path that runs %the twenty steps from here to there
Subject(s): Erotic Love


AS A HYACINTH IN THE MOUNTAINS THAT MEN SHEPHERDING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS A POET OF LESBOS SURPASSES FOREIGNERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS A SWEET APPLE REDDENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They couldn't reach it
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS GOOD NATURED AS A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I don't snap and pout and rage
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS IT HAPPENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you know well
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS JIMMIE WAS PEEKING OUT HIS DOOR, I SLYLY KISSED, by ARTEMON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


AS ONCE IN CRETE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that antique time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS THE STARS SURROUNDING THE LOVELY MOON WILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the whole earth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ASLEEP AGAINST THE BREASTS OF A FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AT ARDS, by FRANCIS HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day the pheasants were honking %like vintage cars and
Last Line: I knew they would stare
Variant Title(s): At Ards Franci
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AT NOONTIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the earth is
Last Line: The cricket sets %up a high-pitched %singing in his wings
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


AT THE FUNERAL OF THE MARRIAGE, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


AT THE TEMPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who comes in flowers. The uncrowned they turn away
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AWED BY HER SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When she %is roundest and lights %earth with her silver
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


BALLAD OF A MARRIAGE, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This sweet mysterious country
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BALLS [OR, & BALLS], by ANNE MCNAUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Actually: it's the balls I look for, always
Last Line: From beautiful pebbles beneath
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men


BARBITOS, BAROMOS, BARMOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BATHING GIRLS, by TRACEY HERD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lighting her thin french cigarette
Last Line: In those days, anything seemed possible
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BE STILL AS YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, by PATRICK MACDONOGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be silent as the rose
Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Love


BEAUTIFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For day is nigh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY IS BEAUTY ONLY WHILE YOU GAZE ON IT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But one who's good will soon be beautiful as well
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY IS FOR THE EYES AND FADES IN A WHILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But goodness is a beauty that lasts forever
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BECAME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For no
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


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


BEFORE MY LYING HEART COULD SPEAK FOR LIFE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No sacred grove
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEFOREHAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Kran(n)iades %girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEHIND WHICH THERE IS AN EXPANSE PAST THE WORLD, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When it's time to come into her
Last Line: You're inside. And so is %the world
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BELOVED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Him I hold as happy as god in heaven
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BERLIN WALL CAFE, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once were were berlin - you and I
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BEST HOUR, by PATRICIA HOOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning: the perfect hour for making love
Last Line: You took fire like the trees the sun had touched
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Morning


BETTY, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the fumbling. Oh blessed lord the fumbling
Last Line: & kissed her lips & dear god tasted woman once again
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Music, Rock


BITCH SWIMMING, by VICKI FEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were the one who acted dog
Last Line: Make us swim for our lives
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BLACK DREAMS OF SUCH VIRULENCE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I %this
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BLAST OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a mountain whirlwind
Last Line: Punishing the oak trees, %love shattered my heart
Variant Title(s): Like A Mountain Whirlwin
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BLINDFOLD, by GRETA STODDART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once in a room in blackpool we had to make do
Last Line: As the day, babbling, and dazzled by the light
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BLUEBELLS FOR LOVE, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There will be bluebells growing under the big trees
Last Line: Look through the tree-trunks of the plantation %as you and I walked slowly to the station
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BODY'S SPEECH, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grief, my grief, maid without sin
Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BOTANIC GARDENS, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guided by love, leaving aside dispute
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BOY DRESSED IN GIRL'S CLOTHES, by HUW ARWYSTLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft-spoken girl with pretty eyes
Last Line: Let her lie beside your wife for a night
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BOY IS LOVELY, EVEN HIS NAME, THOMAS, IS FULL OF, by MELEAGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BOYS ARE A LABYRINTH WITH NO EXIT. WHEREVER YOU LOOK, by RHIANUS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BREAD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone else cut off my head
Last Line: I will go back into her again
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts
Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking
Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes


BRIDE OF THE WORLD, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It curves its hands %around my ribs, and my bones
Last Line: By a lover's embrace %into the house of this world
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BRIDE WITH BEAUTIFUL FEET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can %sappho
Last Line: Stiffly %pliant?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, EXULT! JUST AS YOU PRAYED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodita has honored you above all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, FOR YOUR TIRESOME BACHELOR FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, YOU ARE BLESSED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodite honors you exceedingly
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDIN VESEY, by DONAGH MACDONAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wuld marry bridin vesey
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


BRIGHTNESS AND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desperation, %land
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUGGERY, by DON PATERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At round about four months or so
Last Line: Hold me when I hold you down %and plough the lonely furrow
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BUICK, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine
Last Line: And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep
Subject(s): Automobiles; Erotic Love


BUNDLING, by HYWEL DAFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was beloved where I was one night
Last Line: Great is the wak brigand's love, %greater is the sin of a little boy
Variant Title(s): Frustratio
Subject(s): Erotic Love


BUT ATTIS, TO YOU THE THOUGHT OF ME GROWS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hateful, and you fly off to andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE WITH A RESENTFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Temperament: I have a quiet heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT INTRICATE SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Covered up her feet, a delightful piece of %lydian work
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT STAND BEFORE ME, IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And spread the grace that's in your eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CALLED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eros has given me, beauty and the light of the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CALLING, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What habits of love %do you teach me? What habits
Last Line: Of motion, with my heart's %swift, uneven beat
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CAME HUSBAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: )ing bri(ght
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in bed I pose: desire may grow
Last Line: I know you know
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CAROLINA, by PETER FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You fiddle with the tv set
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


CATHLEEN, by TOM MACINTYRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lovely whore though
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


CERTAINLY NOW THEY'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHILDREN'S SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Childhood, childhood where have you gone?
Last Line: Never come back. %never
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHILL DAMPENS THEIR TEMPER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their wings limp
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHRYSALIDES, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our last free summer we mooned about at odd hours
Last Line: Glistening like drops of copper in our path
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


CHTHO(NIC, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CLEAR KEEN SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CLERIC AND THE VIRGIN, by DAFYDD LLWYD THE SCHOLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I brought tribulation upon myself
Last Line: Too wantonly, but only what is necessary
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CLICK TO DATE THE DRIEST GRAY ROSE UNBEARABLE WITH EROTIC, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: My listless life a concert overpowering it it's like that every night each time I go there
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


CLOSE BESIDE ME NOW AS I PRAY APPEARING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As in the old days
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CLOTH, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some clothes I wear for their excess
Last Line: To press themselves into each other
Subject(s): Erotic Love


COAT OF FUR, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once she feels its weight
Last Line: She will never be cold again
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CODA, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe we knew each other better
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


COME DOWN FROM THE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Share, in goblets laced with gold, %this potion that blends these ritual %delights
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME NOW, MY HOLY LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Find your voice and speak to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME OUT OF CRETE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME FROM CRETE, DOWN FROM HEAVEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Pour it like fine wine
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME NOW, YOU DELICATE GRACES AND YOU FAIRTRESSED MUSES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME ONCE MORE, O YOUR MUSES, LEAVING GOLDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME, HOLY TORTOISE SHELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My lyre, and become a poem
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COMPANY OF HORSEMEN OR OF INFANTRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Round shields and helmets
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CONFESSIONS OF AN ORGASM, by NIN ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a mere slip of a thing, mother taught me that orgasms
Last Line: Moment of contact. The loss of myself is always unbearable
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CONVERSATION BETWEEN A BOY AND A GIRL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dexterous girl with slender waist
Last Line: You ill-tempered wild-arsed bitch.'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CONVERSATION BETWEEN A WELSHMAN AND AN ENGLISHWOMAN, by TUDUR PENLLYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good day to you, fine handy englishwoman
Last Line: Tudur do it or are you not?'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO POETS, by DAFYDD LLWYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, lovely girl, slender are your brows
Last Line: And the striking, before firing off the cannon
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CORONET OF CELERY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CRAZY ABOUT HER SHRIMP, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't even take time
Last Line: I shout to the gods above
Subject(s): Erotic Love


CRETAN WOMEN ONCE DANCED THIS WAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Treading the tender flowers of grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CRYING ASIA! THAT FAMOUS PLACE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And things made of ivory
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CURLS ( ) PLACING THE LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DANCERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon appeared in all her fullness
Last Line: Crushing the soft flowering grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DANGER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DANNY, HAVING CAUGHT A BLACKBIRD WITH LIME UNDER A, by RHIANUS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DANTA GRADHA, SELS., by AUGUSTUS YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woman don't be troublesome
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


DARK, by THOMAS MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've spent the last few days
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


DARK BROWN: FUCK ODE, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The huge figures fucking the huge figures fucking
Last Line: And breath on my toes
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DAUGHTER OF KINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hail!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAWN WITH SMALL GOLDEN FEET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAY I BECAME A WOMAN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night before, I dreamed
Last Line: Like the finest, dark thorn %I'd ever see
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DEAR HEART, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you know to turn me over
Last Line: To fire to ash, dust to bloom to dust
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DEAR VIRGINIA IRONSIDE, by POLLY CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought my wife and I
Last Line: And I won't know who it belongs to
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DEATHLESS APHRODITE OF DAZZLING THRONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desires, accomplish for me, and do you yourself do battle with me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DEER COUPLING, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Yesterday I saw copulation with a rod of horn
Last Line: And a bald woman from the yellow rock
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DEFILEMENTS / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient animals fucked running
Last Line: Kneeling sucking on it weeping
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)


DEJA VU, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It does not come round in hundreds of thousands of years
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Deja Vu; Erotic Love; Love


DELICATE ADONIS DIES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And rend your robes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DELICATE GIRL, IN THE OLD DAYS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I strayed from you, and now again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DESCANT, by DIANN BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the sidewalk's iron gates, those ice-slicked portals
Last Line: With pennies; I'll leave you for love for love for love
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Women


DESIRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You came to me, when I lay aching
Last Line: Under the tender place what yearns
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DESIRE HAS SHAKEN MY MIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Roars through trees
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DESPITE THE PLAINNESS OF THE DAY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In happiness makes of the plain day %its own festive occasion
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DISPLACED PERSON, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those years ago, when I made love to you
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


DO I REALLY STILL LONG FOR VIRGINITY?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DON'T LIE THERE SO SULLEN AND PASSIVE, THOMAS, LIKE A, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DON'T STIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The trash
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DON'T YOU REMEMBER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We, too, did such things in our youth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wandering
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DOUN GAES THE MUIN HERSEL, AN AA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nicht is nearin her mirkest hour %and yet mylane I lie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


DOWN FROM THE BLUE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His shirt of phoenician red
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DOWN; ARCHILOCHUS, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait. Listen. Don't move
Last Line: To her thick, blond, flowery bush
Subject(s): Erotic Love


DOWNWARD MY TEARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And a high wind blow him away
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DREAD, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a chapel I'd a room looked down
Last Line: The lord god's jealous of yourself and me
Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dream on your black wings
Last Line: Now may I have %all these things
Variant Title(s): O Dream From The Blacknes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DREAM OF JEALOUSY, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking with you and another lady
Last Line: Nor my prudence, love, can heal your wounded stare
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Jealousy


DRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DUSK AND WESTERN STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hesperos, most beautiful %of stars
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EACH DAY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cynthia matz, with my finger in your cunt
Last Line: I too wanted love pure and simple
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EARLY IMAGES OF HEAVEN, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It amazed me that the shapes of penises
Last Line: The father all around me
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EARTH WITH HER MANY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is embroidered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ECSTASY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As we made love for the third day
Last Line: Place from which no one has ever come back
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ECSTASY OF ST SAVIOUR'S AVENUE, by NEIL ROLLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight the tenement smells of oysters
Last Line: Blow their smoke like the mellow exhalations %of post-coital cigarettes
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EDGE, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Edenlike as your name
Last Line: On the edge is best
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EKTOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ELEGY; VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, no more! The time has come to eat
Last Line: We, while he sleeps, shall dine; and, when that's done, %drink to his resurrection later on
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Poetry And Poets


ENDLESS NIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: Midnight. Time passes. %I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ENGLYN TO THE PENIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A puking merry prick is this, a nice burden
Last Line: A holy-water sprinkler spitting soap, %arse beater, god's grace on it
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ENTREE, by ROGER ARMBRUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first touch
Last Line: Lifts bird wing %toward home
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ENVY OF POOR LOVERS, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity poor lovers who may not do what they please
Last Line: For whom, it seems, the sacraments have failed
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EPIGRAM: IN FRANCUM, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When francus comes to solace with his whore
Last Line: I envy him not, but wish I had the power %to make myself his wench but one half hour
Variant Title(s): Francu
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EPIPHANY ABOUT GONGYLA, HERMES, AND HADES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gongyla, is there no sign of you? No epiphany
Last Line: With lotus, the dewy banks %of the river of hades
Variant Title(s): An Epiphany About Gongyla, Hermes And Hade
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EPITHALAMION, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the small hours when
Last Line: The sky when king and queen are gone
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


EPITHALAMIUM, SELS., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy bridegroom, hesper brings
Last Line: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song


EROS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eros, shaking under my rib cage
Last Line: My sweet, my bitter, unimaginable beast
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in my %heart I %see clearly
Last Line: Etched %by love
Variant Title(s): Now In My / Heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS ARRIVED FROM HEAVEN WRAPPED IN A PURPLE MANTLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS SEIZES AND SHAKES MY VERY SOUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shaking ancient oaks
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS SHOOK ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like wind exploding on mountain oak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS THE LIMB-LOOSENER SHAKES ME AGAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That sweet, bitter, impossible creature
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS WEAVER OF MYTHS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eros bringer of pain
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, CHILD OF GEA AND OURANOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, WEAVER OF TALES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROTICS OF HISTORY, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex and history. And skin and bone
Last Line: This time - and this you did not ordain - %I am changing the story
Variant Title(s): Heroi
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Heroism; History


ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You woke me, rising - this in paris once
Last Line: When, later, older, or in sicily, %we stood, at dawn, beside the tideless sea
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


ETERNAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And be yourself my ally in the chase
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EUPHONY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands make love to thigh, breast, clavicle
Last Line: Love & hate tattooed on the fingers
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Erotic Love


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesper, thou bringest home all that radiant dawn has scattered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening star, you are the one
Last Line: And gather the wild. %back to the mother you bring her child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered
Last Line: Bring home the goat, bring the child home to her mother
Variant Title(s): Hesperos, You Bring Home All The Bright Dawn Disperse
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING, YOU BRING BACK ALL THAT THE DAWN SACTTERS ABROAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You bring back the goat, your bring to its mother the child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENSONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things thou bringest, hesper, that the bright dawn did part
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FABLE, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There they were, right before my eyes
Last Line: And heard nothing but silence. Painful, unbearable silence
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FABRICATION, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell a lie about a cloud-filled
Last Line: You've just undone
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FAIR ELEN OF LLANDAF, by IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I held elen in great esteem
Last Line: And may god forgive the girl for it
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FALLING DOWNWARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FANTASY, by HYWEL DAFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took a look which caused evil
Last Line: If we're going, girl, it's time for us to go
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE HARP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More golden than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More golden than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FAREWELL TO A SOUTHERN MELODY, by HUANG O    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day will come when I will
Last Line: Ten thousand beautiful sensual %ways we will make love
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FAREWELL TO ARMS, by THOMAS EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell everyone now, the season for a bargain
Last Line: I'll go no more into a girl's saddle
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FAREWELL, O BRIDE, FAREWELL O HONORED GROOM, FAREWELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FEATHERLIKE, by NEIL ROLLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waste not want not, you say as you
Last Line: And push your salty tongue in my mouth
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FECKLESS GYPSY, by LINDA FRANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I took him down to the river
Last Line: That night I took him by the river
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FEET OF THE DOORKEEPER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ten shoemakers worked to stitch them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FELLATIO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful to think
Last Line: With a silver silo
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FEMALE GENITALS, by GWERFUL MECHAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every foolish drunken poet
Last Line: Lovely bush, god save it
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FERAL, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bleed in a dream
Last Line: I leave for each %dream animal to follow
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FESTIVAL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FETISH, by LORETTA COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A shoe is valued highly if it is
Last Line: Seen as an imprint in flesh
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Feet


FIELD WORK, SELS., by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Catspiss smell, %the pink bloom open
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


FIRST MOVE, by DOROTHY PORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I reach past my glass %take her hand
Last Line: The hot tip %of her tongue
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FIRST NEWS OF SPRINGTIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lovesong of the nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FIRST SEX, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew little, and what I knew
Last Line: Said and more, I rubbed it into my %hands like lotion, I signed on for the duration
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FIRST TIME, by JANET SHEPPERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A track set about with blossom brought us
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


FIRST TWILIGHT / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge indiscrete cunning trees
Last Line: She wore almost nothing
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)


FIRST, I WANT TO MAKE YOU COME IN MY HAND, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where I need you. I want you to make me come
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FISH, by DERYN REES-JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go to sleep with the taste of you, and this is not the first time
Last Line: On the furthermost tip of my tongue, like a dream
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FLOWERING WHORE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the first violets blossomed on her skin it caused a
Last Line: Her young, promiscuous body
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Prostitution; Women


FOOL, DON'T TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR APHRODITA, THIS PURPLE HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: An honored gift from phokaia
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR EVEN THEN, WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The road to high olympos %( ) men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR IMELDA, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were no poems that year
Last Line: My memory, my dear
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


FOR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor the bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR MY MOTHER SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the children of kleanax %horribly wasted
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR SO LONG, MY DARLING, I PRAYED TO, by RUFINUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drowsy? I owe you this felicity forever
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FOR THE LOVE OF SLEEP, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, your pet, erotic toy, %curls its limbs around
Last Line: Flushed with dream- %abandoned only to you
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FOR THE SAKE OF THE OLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Voice ( ) %before
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, by RICHARD KELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sons and daughters, what could I say to you
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


FOR THEY SAY THAT LEDA ONCE FOUND A HYACINTH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Colored egg, all covered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR WHEN I SEE YOU OPPOSITE ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And to liken you to tawny-haired helen is not unseemly at all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR YOU WERE ONCE A CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: There is no road
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR YOU, O BRIDEGROOM, THERE WAS NEVER ANOTHER GIRL LIKE THIS ONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORD AT THE RIVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORD MANOR, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even on the quietest days the distant
Last Line: Deep in the dripping lilac bush
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


FORSAKEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon's set, and pleiads
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORTUNATE BRIDEGROOM, NOW THE MARRIAGE THAT YOU PRAYED FOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodite has honored you beyond all others
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAE THE AIOLIC O PSAPPHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caller rain frae abune
Last Line: And sleep faas drappan doun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


FRAGMENT 105(A), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You: an achilles' apple
Last Line: Poised beyond their reach
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT 105(C), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my mountain hyacinth
Last Line: A scarlet stain upon the earth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 100, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And wrapped her well
Last Line: With delicate linen
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 101, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crimson scented scarves
Last Line: Expensive gifts
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 102, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, I cannot strike my loom. I'm undone
Last Line: By my love for a boy by delicate aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 106, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Superior, as the lesbian bard to foreigners
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 107, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I long still for my maidenhood?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 113, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For there never was another girl
Last Line: O bridegroom, like this one
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 117, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye to the bride! Good-bye to the groom!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 118, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But come
Last Line: Take voice
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 120, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For I am not spiteful
Last Line: Of an innocent child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 122, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate girl
Last Line: Plucking buds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 123, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In golden sandals dawn
Last Line: Had just come to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 124, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You yourself, kalliope
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 125, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself wove garlands once
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 128, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now come, o delicate graces
Last Line: And muses of lovely hair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 130, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love that looses my limbs shakes me again
Last Line: The bittersweet, irresistible, creeping thing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 131, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, you've come to hate the thought of me
Last Line: You go fluttering after andromeda now
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 133, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda makes a fair exchange
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 134, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spoke with you
Last Line: O kypros-born
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 135, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, o irana
Last Line: The swallow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 136, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Messenger of spring
Last Line: The nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 142, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leto and niobe were best of friends
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 143, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden pulse bloomed upon the shore
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 144, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With more
Last Line: Of gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 145, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't move the pebble piles
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 146, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For me neither honey nor bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 147, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone, I say
Last Line: Will remember us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 151, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black sleep of the night
Last Line: Cloaks my eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 152, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mingled with colors of every kind
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 158, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware the vainly barking tongue
Last Line: When rage spreads in the chest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 159, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You and my servant love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 161, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guard her, bridgegrooms
Last Line: Kings of citadels
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 166, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that leda once
Last Line: An egg of hyacinthine %blue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 167, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whiter far than an egg
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 168, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For adonis, woe
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 168C, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brindled the earth
Last Line: Of many wreaths
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 192, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goblets, gold-bossed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 29, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gorgo's necklace and robes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 32, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who brought me honor
Last Line: With the gift of their works
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 33, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O aphrodite of the golden wreath
Last Line: I wish that such luck were mine!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 35, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Either panormos or kypros or paphps
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 39, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An embroidered shoe
Last Line: Covered her foot
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 40, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sacrifice to you
Last Line: Of a white goat
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 41, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward you beautiful girls
Last Line: My thought is unalterable
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 42, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart of the doves grows chill
Last Line: And they slacken their wings
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 44, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A herald came, idaios, the swift messenger
Last Line: In their happiness exactly like the heavenly gods
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 46, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon luxurious cushions
Last Line: I'll lay my limbs down
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 47, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love shook
Last Line: Batters the oak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 48, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You came, and I was mad for you
Last Line: But you chilled my heart aflame with desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 51, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what to do
Last Line: I'm of two minds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 52, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't hope
Last Line: With my two hands
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 53, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosy-armed graces
Last Line: Come here to us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 54, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came from heaven
Last Line: Clad in crimson cloak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 91, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Irana, I've never come upon
Last Line: Anyone more distainful than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRIEND, YOU ARE GONE, BUT REMEMBER ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Honestly, I wish I were dead!
Last Line: No sound, %no grove
Variant Title(s): Honestly I Whish I Were Dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRIENDSHIP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay, sweet, %your head
Last Line: You love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FROM METASTASIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, last, and dearest
Last Line: So love I thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Change; Erotic Love


FUCKING, by MICHAEL HOFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A zero sum game, our extravagant happiness
Last Line: Jubilant, a seesaw at rest, not one foot on the floor
Subject(s): Erotic Love


FULL MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the fair moon stars veil their heads
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FULL MOON APPEARED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All around the altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GARDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the cool water ripples
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GENTLE OF VOICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With honey in her words
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GET IT WHILE YOU CAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GIFT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that parking %lot pressure of
Last Line: Back to be sniffed
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GIRL FIGHTS BACK, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I made a tryst in the woods
Last Line: Despite our play don't forsake me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GIRL PICKING A FLOWER JUST OPENED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GIRL UPSTAIRS, by SIAN HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl upstairs wear white lycra shorts
Last Line: Fornication. That's what a man needs
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GIRL WITH THE PLEASING VOICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GIRLFRIENDS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That hot september night, we slept in a single bed
Last Line: To see my fingers counting themselves, dancing
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GIRLHOOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like %the wild- %flower
Last Line: Its petalled %print
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GLANMORE SONNETS: 10, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt we slept in a moss in donegal
Last Line: The respite in our dewy dreaming faces
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GLOW AND BEAUTY OF THE STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When in her roundness she burns silver %about the world
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GODDESS OF PERSUASION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Daughter of aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GODDESS, I SPOKE WITH YOU IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cyprus-born aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GODS ( ) TEARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOLDEN CHICKPEAS GREW ALONG THE SHORE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOLDEN GOBLETS WITH KNUCKLEBONE STEMS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GONGLYA / I SAID, 'O LORD', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of acheron %where the lotus grows
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GONGYLA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the banks of acheron.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOODBYE SALLY, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shaken already, I know
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


GOULBURN ISLAND CYCLE: SONG 13, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ejaculating into their vaginas - young girls of the western tribes
Last Line: For they move their buttocks, those people from goulburn islands
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Erotic Love


GRACES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, at least
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GRACES O WITH WRISTS LIKE THE WILD ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come among us, daughters of god
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GRANT, O / KYPRIS, AND NEREIDS TOO, THAT ALL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And may he wish to make his sisted endowed %with honor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GRAVEYARD NARCISSUS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its two-part bulb, %like a double chamber
Last Line: But that one story %only the heart can tell
Subject(s): Erotic Love


GROWING OLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Kalliope %feel
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAIKU, by GEORGE SWEDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaving my lonliness - inside her
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HAIL, BRIDE!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Long life!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAND BAG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HANDWRITING, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vowels open the bodies
Last Line: Journey across %a new moon of ice
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HAUGHTIER THAN A HORSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


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


HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More than you do me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAVEN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, love, and rest
Last Line: Will we know how far %we have been
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HE GLEAMS LIKE A GOD THAT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I appear little %by little in my loss to have died; %tested in every way since even ... %..........
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS ALMOST A GOD, A MAN BESIDE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So poor I've nothing to lose, I must gamble
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS DYING, CYTHEREA, ADONIS THIS DELICATE. WHAT SHALL WE DO?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beat your breasts, girls, and tear your clothes.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS DYING, KYTHEREA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tear your dresses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS MORE THAN A HERO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a god in my eyes
Last Line: Death isn't far from me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE SEEMS TO BE A GOD, THAT MAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But endure, even this grief of love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE TOLD HER, HE LOVED HER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Party all day, party all night-a man
Last Line: Seeking out the features of his own true love
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HE WHO IS FAIR IS FAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In time be also fair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE'S A HOOK, A SWEET HOOK YOU'VE SWALLOWED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Caressed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HEAVY-PETTING ZOO, by CLARE POLLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's your best friend's 16th birthday party
Last Line: As a lamb does, whitely and without question
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HEKATE, THE SHINING GOLD ATTENDANT OF APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HELPED HOME DRUNK, by WANG HE-QING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My lips were squeezed against her
Last Line: Her ivory comb's backside
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Erotic Love


HER GIFTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More music %than the harp
Last Line: Than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HER SHOES WERE LEATHER AND FROM ASIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rich lydian patterns across the toes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light is burning late %in this georgian dublin street
Last Line: Their hooves through the moonlight
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erotic Love


HERE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERE ARE FIND GIFTS, CHILDREN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet I love refinement, and beauty and light %are for me the same as desire for the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERMES CAME TO ME IN A DREAM. I SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To die, and to watch the dewy lotus %along the banks of acheron, river of hell
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERO AND LEANDER: CONSUMMATION, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This said, the am'rous youth, with both arms stript
Last Line: Soft silence made, black night undress'd the bride
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HIGH IN THE CHARIOT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against all the outlanders
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HIM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Becomes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HISTOIRE, by HARRY MATHEWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tina and seth met in the midst of an overcrowded militarism
Last Line: Until, gasping with appreciate racism, both together sink into the revealed glory of sexism
Subject(s): Communism; Erotic Love; Fascism And Fascists


HISTORY OF LOVE, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is love's history
Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HOLLYWOOD BED, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We narrow into the house, the room, the bed
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HONESTLY I'D AS SOON BE DEAD!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No occasion, with us away, %no grove...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HONESTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO DIE.', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not a grove or a dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HONEYMOON, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember last summer when god turned on the heat
Last Line: Nothing was broken, nothing was amiss
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HOPE OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HORSES IN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out of crete
Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine
Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical


HOSPITAL, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A year ago I fell in love with the functional ward
Last Line: Snatch out of time the passionate transitory
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HOST OF HORSEMEN, SOME SAY, IS THE LOVELIEST SIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than lydian chariots battling in armament
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HOW CAN I TELL IF MY LOVE FOR HIM IS WANING, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HUG, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined
Last Line: The stay of your secure firm dry embrace
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HUNTER TRACKS DOWN EVERY RABBIT AND DEER THROUGH, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


HUSBAND TO WIFE, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I consider how your life was spent
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete for this holy temple
Last Line: Immortal nectar in golden cups, %fill all with sudden ecstasy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Star-throned incorruptible aphrodite
Last Line: Have done, do thou; be thou for my thyself too %help in the battle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the little girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I AM APHRODITA OF THE SHIFTING EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My servants are eros and you, my sappho
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I AM WILLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I BID YOU, TAKE YOU LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I made this prayer to her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I CANNOT LIE HERE, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I COME FORWARD, TELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DETEST LONG-WINDED POETRY AND DON'T CARE FOR A LIFE, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


I DO NOT THINK THAT ANY GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will be skilled as you in her heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T EXPECT TO TOUCH THE SKY WITH MY TWO HANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I HAVE TWO THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY I'M RUNNING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My mind is part this way, part that
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Long ago, when you were still %an ungainly little girl
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I GAVE YOU A WHITE GOAT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I GIVE UP! I CAN'T MAKE YOU MY FRIEND FOR YOU DON'T, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL: THE GOLDEN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: - for her, I wouldn't take all lydia or sweet
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE A LOVELY DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'd not take all of lydia %nor even enchanting
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NEITHER THE HONEY NOR THE BEE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NO EMBROIDERED HEADBAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ribbon reminds me of those days %when our enemies were in exile
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NOT ONE WORD FROM HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No woodlot bloomed in spring without song
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT SELF-RESPECT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not stir up gossip with your tongue, insult %would not stream from your eyes-- %you might be talking
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HELD HER CLOSE, WE WERE BREAST, by MARCUS ARGENTARIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only witness; I am silent
Alternate Author Name(s): Markus Argentarios
Subject(s): Erotic Love


I LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of its beauty
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED THEE, ATTHIS, IN THE LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ATHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved you athis, long ago
Last Line: But you lost innocence, glow %and me, as you gained grace and guile
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without any grace
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I MIGHT LEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I MISS YOU AND YEARN AFTER YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I PUT HERE, MY LAZY GIRL, THIS SOFT CUSHION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And if, with your blouse off, in your soft arms
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I STRUM AND STRUM IN MY OWN FASHION ON THE GUITAR, by ANACREON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Erotic Love


I SUDDENLY HAVE TO COME TO LOVE, by GEORGE+(1) BUCHANAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I TELL HER SHE IS LOVELY, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I THINK SOMETIMES, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think sometimes %of the fingernail slotted
Last Line: O my sweet wife!
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I THINK THAT SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US IN ANOTHER TIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATIS, ONCE, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To me you seemed a little girl, and not too graceful
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WILL LET MY BODY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flow like water over the gentle cushions
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WISH THE CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Many a joy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WISH TO GO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WOULD LIKE MY LOVE TO DIE, by SAMUEL BECKETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And on me walking the streets %mourning her who thought she loved me
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I'LL NEVER SAY GOODBYE, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the end of the serpentine
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


I'M ONLY TWENTY-ONE AND ALREADY LIFE IS A BURDEN, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


I'VE FOULED THE WEFT, THE WARP, AND THE SHUTTLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And by the slender aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF AMONG THE BOYS YOU SAW ONE WHO WAS THE MOST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IF I SEE A PALE BOY, IT IS THE DEATH OF ME, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IF MY NIPPLES WERE TO DRIP MILK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who wears the scent of violets %on her young breasts
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF ONLY THEY HAD WOVEN ME SUCH LUCK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When my cloth was on the loom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU CARE FOR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That is in your eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU CARE FOR ME, THEN WIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The elder in a llove affair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU LOVE BOYS AND HAVE TASTED THEIR BITTER HONEY, by MELEAGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IF YOU LOVE ME, PROVE IT AND DON'T USE OUR FRIENDSHIP, by LUCILIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: THE 32 POSITIONS OF LOVE, by EUGENE GRINDEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reciprocal love, the only love that should concern us here
Last Line: Window has burned away the curtain of daylight
Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Surrealism


IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women


IN A WOMAN THERE IS NO REAL SPHINCTER, NOTHING LIKE A, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to tell you something. Nevertheless, my shame
Last Line: Come to me now, you delicate graces and you fairtressed muses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to tell you something, and yet my shame %prevents me...'
Last Line: Eyes: you would state your case
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN DREAMS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the midst of weather
Last Line: Opens nothing, %after all
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IN HER PALM, PERFECTION, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course persephone eats
Last Line: Even jewels of such clear blood- %soon rankle
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IN MY EYES HE MATCHES THE GODS, THAT MAN WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But all must be endured, since even a poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN MY SEASON I USED TO WEAVE LOVE GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN SPITE OF HIS DANGLING PRONOUN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was really her favorite %student dark and just
Last Line: They were still going to town in %novels she never had time to finish
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Schools


IN THE HOUSE OF THE MUSES' SERVANTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Grief is not right. It would not suit us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS, by THOMAS MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing could be second-hand that's so full of love
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris


IN THE OLD DAYS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We didn't have this and we didn't have that
Last Line: In such bodies in those days
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Past


IN-BETWEEN SONG, by MICHAEL FOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's falling in love people love, the nervous excitement
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


INSCRIPTION ON A WINE JUG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the temple where stone altars
Last Line: Fit for her festivities
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


INTIMATE LETTER 1973, by PADRAIC FIACC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our paris part of belfast has %decapitated lamp-posts now
Last Line: It was I who left you
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


INTO THEIR TRUE GENTLENESS, by PEARSE HUTCHINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If love is the greatest reality
Last Line: Into their true gentleness, %even with us
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


INTRODUCTION, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were introduced in a grave glade
Last Line: They were introduced in a green grave
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


INVITATION TO MAKE LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Show her drawings of animals making love, then
Last Line: Dreams about her. Tickle her toes with your finger
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Pentastichs


IS FRAGRANT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ISLAND AIGA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT ARRIVES SUDDENLY AND CARRIES US OFF AS USUAL, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes in early june I am standing
Last Line: To a height and dropped straight down
Subject(s): Erotic Love


IT IS NOT FITTING TO MOURN THE DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let us have no mourning here
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT WAS YOU, ATTHIS, WHO SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you forget everyhing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR US. IT IS NOT RIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For mourning to enter a home of poetry
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


JEALOUSY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More happy than the gods is he
Last Line: And, losing colour, sense, and breath, %I seem quite languishing in death
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


JEWISH BRIDE, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the black canvas of estrangement
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Jews; Love; Religious Discrimination


JUMPING, by JAMES LASDUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He meets you at the zoo. You stand and watch
Last Line: The other's watching as you wake, and scream
Subject(s): Erotic Love


JUST NOW DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


JUST WHEN DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


KANAIHUAQ'S ATTACK ON UTAHANIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm here but
Last Line: Couldn't stand up
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Eskimos; Native Americans


KINKY, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They decide to exchange heads
Last Line: Their mirrored desires bubbling from the most unlikely places
Subject(s): Erotic Love


KISS, by SEAMUS DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bias of the sky
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


KISS, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight on my mouth %another man's kiss
Last Line: Liquefies %to milk
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


KISSING AND TELLING, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or she would turn up 'the songs of leonard cohen'
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


KNOWLEDGE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying between her legs
Last Line: At least for then, %the knowledge of their future life %beneath the soil
Subject(s): Erotic Love


KYPRIAN AND SEA-DAUGHTERS OF NEREOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That he be a delight to all who love him
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


KYPRIS, MAY SHE FIND YOU BITTER TOO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Coming again this second time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


L'AMITIE, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She allows me kiss her twice, as though to say
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LABOR DAY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Requiring something lovely on his arm
Last Line: Pastures spewing infinite tiny bells. You pimp
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Unfaithfulness


LADY DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LADY OF QUALITY, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In hospital where windows meet
Last Line: What qualities remain
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LAMENT FOR ART O'LEARY, SELS., by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love and my mate
Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LAST GODS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits naked on a rock
Last Line: Two faces float, looking up %at a great maternal pine whose branches %open out in all directions %ex
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men


LAST NIGHT, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The next day, I am almost afraid.
Last Line: The mornng after love
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LATO AND NIOBA WERE VERY LOVING FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LAY YOUR ARMS ASIDE, by PIERCE FERRITER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gentlest of women, put your weapons by
Last Line: Gentlest of women, lay your arms aside
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LE VOYAGE INNOME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ou est-ce qu'elle va
Last Line: Poemes que tu m'as ecrit
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LEAD OFF, MY LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we shall sing together
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEAVE YOUR SIEGE OF HER VIOLET SOFTNESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We shall stay awake and sing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEAVING CRETE, COME VISIT AGAIN OUR TEMPLE., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You know well - rejoicing our golden cups - your %headiest nectar...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEAVING THE MOTEL, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, the last kids holler
Last Line: We would no doubt have other rooms then, %or other names
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love; Hotels


LEMAN, by JOE SHEERIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The letter I wrote you in invisible ink
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman
Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


LES SYLPHIDES, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life in a day: he took his girl to the ballet
Last Line: The river had flowed away %and where were the white flowers
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage


LET ME WISH THE CHILD OF THE HOUSE OF POLYANAX, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A most good day
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LETTER TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the very gods in my sight is he who
Last Line: Death has come near me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIFT HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like ares is he - %bigger far than a man
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIFT HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Greater for than a mortal man
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE A CHILD TO HER MOTHER I HAVE FLOWN TO YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE THE BLOWING OF BIRDS' EGGS, by NEIL ROLLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I crack the shell
Last Line: Explodes like the blowing of birds' eggs
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LIKE THE SUCCULENT APPLE THAT BLUSHES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The applepickers have forgotten-- %not completely - it was %impossible to reach
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE THE SWEET APPLE THAT REDDENS OF THE TOPMOST BOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Underfoot, and on the ground the purple blossom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LINCOLNSHIRE LASS, by DAFYDD LLWYD THE SCHOLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exquisite slender girl
Last Line: She was a pretty girl, may god be with her
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LINEN INDUSTRY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pulling up flax after the blue flowers have fallen
Last Line: A butterfly attending the embroidered flowers
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Industry; Linen; Love


LITTLE BLACK BOOK, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was aisling who first soft-talked my penis-tip between her legs
Last Line: I fluttered, like an erratum slip, between her legs
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LITTLE GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of leaves
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LITTLE PRIMER ON SLEEP, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the sleep of a magpie
Last Line: A comet has come to rest
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LO, I CLIMB UP AND DIVE FROM THE WHITE CLIFFS, by ANACREON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LONELINESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight, %and the small hours
Last Line: I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LONG AND LANGUOROUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A whole stolen afternoon before us
Last Line: Generous as our afternoon speeds %on its way long and languorous
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LONG AND LOVELY, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long and lovely, cool and white
Last Line: While hushed and lovely, cool and white, %she lay beside me all the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk to me
Last Line: Pricks me %with %desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOST FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, our own loved anactoria
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOST HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot, sweetest mother
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOST MAIDENHEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the hyacinth high on the mountains under the shepherds' tread
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind threshes the mountain oaks
Last Line: The mastery that sweetly melts my limbs
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE - BITTERSWEET, IRREPRESSIBLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet, atthis, you despise my being. %to chase andromeda, you leave me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE A GREETING, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LOVE POEM, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If my nose could smell only
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LOVE POEM, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You define with your perfume
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


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: 25, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your tongue thrums and moves
Last Line: Of a vast expanding pearl
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I came from
Last Line: Buttocks shivered against you
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Erotic Love; Nudity


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, LET THE WIND CRY ON THE DARK MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE-TRYST, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dafydd is asking for you
Last Line: Hide it girl, as long as I hide it.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOVER, by ANTHONY CRONIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All journeys end some place, and he was happy
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LOVER, by JOE SHEERIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early in spring my father went courting
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LOVER OF WOMEN, by EVA SALZMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strolls out with her at the earliest hint of spring
Last Line: To the reciprocal warmth of his lover's skin
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOVERS, by VICKI FEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn, he shakes her awake
Last Line: As if returning her to the wild
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOVERS, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the tiff there was stiff silence, till
Last Line: Of eager and extravagant anger
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LOVES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVESONG TO CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK, by DERYN REES-JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Captain. I never thought we'd come to this
Last Line: And we do, with both our pairs of eyes tight closed
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LOVING GIRLS MORE THAN GELLO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LUCKY BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women


LULLABY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the hour is black, the moments
Last Line: On dream's jagged horizon
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LULLABY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, may your sleep be sound
Last Line: From the limbs of leda sank %but not from her protecting care
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


LUSTY LASS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I was walking in the woods this year
Last Line: Under an unlucky grievous star.'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LYING IN BED, by AMARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying in bed turned away from each other, hold their breath, without a word
Last Line: And the coldness broken with laughter, the two of them quickly, closely embraced
Subject(s): Erotic Love


LYRIC AFTERWARDS, by TOM PAULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a taut dryness all that summer
Last Line: Now in the grace of the world and always
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Longing; Love


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 1, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: And I lie here alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: I sleep alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 3, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pleiades disappear
Last Line: Sleepless, I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


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


MADMEN, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Odd how the seemingly maddest of men
Last Line: They leave their women grateful, relieved, and bored
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAGNIFICAT, by MICHELE ROBERTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh this man %what a meal he made of me
Last Line: And nuzzling each other in the smelly fold
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Holidays; New Year


MAID UNWED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sweet apple reddens, high up against the sky
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAIDENHOOD, MAIDENHOOD, / WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never afain shall I come %to you. Never again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAIDENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So that we may look on less sleep than does the %clearvoiced nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAKE THE BEDLAMP TIPSY WITH OIL, by PHILODEMUS OF GADARA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The rest of aphrodite's secrets
Alternate Author Name(s): Philodemos; Philodemus
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAKING DO, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All I do, I do with
Last Line: Bowl of my eye
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAKING LOVE, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wake up, and you do not know
Last Line: You will not remember, you will never know
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAKING LOVE OUTSIDE ARAS AN UACHTARAIN, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a boy, myself and my girl
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MAKING LOVE TO MARILYN MONROE, by PAUL GROVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He pumps her up, po-faced, his right leg rising
Last Line: Doubt punctures with a quintessential bang
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS, by THOMAS EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is on a girl a glade of joy hidden
Last Line: The shoot, the plant of love
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAN AND A WOMAN MAKING LOVE, by LLYWELYN AP GUTUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well I saw on fine linen
Last Line: We'll go at it straight-footed.'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAN ROOT, by SHIRAISHI KAZUKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: God if he exists
Last Line: Someone like you
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAN UNDER THE TUB, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As the extravagant woman
Last Line: The man kept his life
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MAN WHO WORSHIPS BOYS CARRIES A GALLING YOKE ON, by ASS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MARITAL SONNETS, SELS., by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was brought up like most girls of that age
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MARRIAGE IS LIKE A TREE, by RICHARD KELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the flood, its roots are dying in air
Last Line: A root safe in the ground for ever
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage


MARRIAGE OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crying asia! That famous place
Last Line: Are like two of the gods together
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MARRIAGE OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cyprus %the herald came
Last Line: Neither the honey %nor the bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MARY HYNES, by PADRAIC FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: That sunday, on my oath, the rain was a heavy overcoat
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MASCULUS GIGANTICUS HIBERNICUS, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Country lout, knife thrower (dagger-wielder)
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MAY THE WINDS AND WORRIES BEAR OFF THE ONE WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Blames me in my anguish
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAY YOU SLEEP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of a tender friend
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAY YOU SLEEP UPON YOUR GENTLE COMPANION'S BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAYFLY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Barometer of my moods today, mayfly
Last Line: I want always to be near your breasts
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MAZE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to stray into the
Last Line: Leave this labyrinth
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ME AWAY FROM THEM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The guard corporal %wrestling
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MEDB SPEAKS, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: War I declare from now
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MEDEIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MEETING-POINT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was away and somewhere else
Last Line: Time was away and she was here
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MERMAIDS AND YOU BRINE-BORN ON THE KYPROS SAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Put away the evil
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MERMAN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother told me there'd be %all kinds
Last Line: A lover who craves %the taste of salt inside me
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MIDNIGHT COURT, SELS., by DAVID MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The start of my story, the source of my strain
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MIDNIGHT SONGS: 1, by TZU YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is night again
Last Line: That is not lovable?
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MIKA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dewfall upon the world
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MILD-EYED, LIKE A SUCKLING FAWN, by ANACREON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MINGLED WITH COLORS OF EVERY KIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MINNIE, I CANNA CAA MY WHEEL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MINSTREL'S BOAST, by IOCYN DDU AB ITHEL GRACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A minstrel is ever a wanderer, loud his song
Last Line: O mary, who will give me a coat?
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MIRROR OF THESE EYES, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn the quicksilvered glass
Last Line: While looking at you: myself %loved in a lover's eyes
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MISADVENTURE, by IEUAN GETHIN AB LLEISION    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a date, profitable fault
Last Line: A cunt can't be trusted - only while one is with it
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MISSING, SELS, by ALAN JENKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were quiet, in your bath, and you were going to sleep %with him
Last Line: If you had it was. But not this. Missing. You
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MISTRESS DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MITYLENE ON RETURN FROM EXILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We round machaera in in one eager sweep
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MNAISIDKIA, LOVELIER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the tender flesh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars %that circle
Last Line: At the full
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON APPEARED IN ALL HER FULLNESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And so the women stood around the altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON AS MEDUSA, by VINNIE-MARIE D'AMBROSIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such easy, easy hours
Last Line: In the thickening room
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MOON HAS DRIFTED OFF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the pleiades. In the middle %of night, hour slides into hour. %I drift alone asleep
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS GONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS SET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time passes, time passes, and I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS SET, AND THE PLEIADES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Alone in my bed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HATH LEFT THE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But on my couch alone I lie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOONSHINE, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To think, %I must be alone
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Writing And Writers


MORAL TALE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All this for me, he asked
Last Line: Moral: in adversity we find our goal in life
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MORE HARMONIOUS THAN LYRES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MORE SWEETLY TUNED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And more golden %than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion


MOTHER, I CANNOT WEAVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, sweet mother, I cannot weave
Last Line: Slender aphrodite overpowered me with joy, %stole my heart to give to a boy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOUNTAIN SONG: 3. FEELING THE ITCH, by FENG MENG-LUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I itched inside and caught my lover's eye
Last Line: Luckily my lover put out the fire in my stern
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MUSE, by JO SHAPCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I kiss you in all the folding places
Last Line: Can I get the damned words to come into my mouth
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


MUSES, COME DOWN AGAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leaving that golden
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY ATTHIS, ALTHOUGH OUR DEAR ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the night's many tongues %carry her cry across the sea
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY BLACK TRIANGLE, by GRACE NICHOLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My black triangle %sandwiched between the geography of my thighs
Last Line: Carries the seal of approval %of my deepest self
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MY DEAR RALPH, THE WANGS OF BOYS FALL INTO THREE, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MY HAIR IS WHITE; MY PRICK IS LIMP, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


MY MOTHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When she was young it was the style
Last Line: Now she wears sleek hair coifed by an artist %from sardis where hairdressers are the smartest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Colorful ribbons from sardis-- %but a garland of fresh flowers
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MOTHER USED TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where shall I get one
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MUSE, WHAT AILS THIS ARDOUR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I should so rashly ripp up
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NAMELESS VOYAGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where does she go
Last Line: Is the land of poems %you have written for me
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


NATURAL HISTORY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These days the trees grow
Last Line: To a cool startle of white- %that indelible color of loss
Subject(s): Erotic Love


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


NEAR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Girls ( %around
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEAR SILK FARM ROAD, by KATHERINE LEDERER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love me like a vegetable
Last Line: And the day-long staccato of grasshopper thighs
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NEGLECTED WIFE, by PATRICK GALVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, woman %go away from me
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


NEIGHBORS OF THE GENTLE MOON STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Appear in a fluster to disappear %whenever she rises fully revealed %bathing the earth in silver lig
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NESSA, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met her on the first of august
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


NEST IN A WALL, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoky as peat your lank hair on my pillow
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quick, woman, in your net
Last Line: And draw the equal quilt %over our naked guilt
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Prostitution


NEVER YET, O IRANA, HAVE I FOUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Anyone more vexing than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEVER, IRANA, HAVE I MET ANYBODY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More bothersome than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEW COSMOLOGY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So it's true: the poplar and I
Last Line: Just as the poets promised
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NEXT MORNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next morning %when a damnfool parrot
Last Line: Drowning out %the parrot's calls
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Parrots


NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovers' nightingale
Last Line: The clamorous angel of the spring
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NO CONTINUING CITY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands here, gentle, where her breasts begin
Last Line: To eat and drink me out of house and home
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


NOT AN ANGEL, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wings of my desire grow
Last Line: Of heartbeat racket %wherever I go
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NOT EVEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Longing %pleased
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOT ONE GIRL, I THINK, WILL EVER LOOK ON THE SUNLIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of another time who has such talent as this one does
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOTHING CAN TAKE ITS PLACE IN MY MIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This beauty of girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOTICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods come %straightaway
Last Line: To the tearless
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW LETO AND NIOBE WERE VERY DEAR COMPANIONS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW THAT ANDROMEDA HAS HER FAIR REPLY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Psappho, why aphrodita of so many pleasures?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW TO DELIGHT MY WOMEN FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll make a beautiful song of this affair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW YOU KISS ME WHEN THE FIRE IS OUT, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NOW YOU'RE UP, DAMN IT, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NUDA NATENS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anthea, your shy flanks in starlight
Last Line: Bent silver about your pudenda
Subject(s): Erotic Love


NUMERICAL VALUE OF THE LETTERS IN 'ANUS' AND, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


O ADONIS!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O DREAM ON YOUR DARK WINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But may I have %them all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O HESPERUS! THOU BRINGEST ALL THINGS HOME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O POLLYANNA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Good-bye, good bye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O SAPPHO, I LOVE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And even in acheron you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O THERE ARE NO OTHERS LIKE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not in these times, lover
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O WHA'S THE BRIDE?, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wha's the bride that carries the bunch
Last Line: My virgin womb ha'e met
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men


O WOMAN, SHAPELY AS THE SWAN, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


O YOU ROSY-ARMED GRACES, HALLOWED DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS, BE HERE!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OBLIVION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sans record %sans regret
Last Line: In the house of dis
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OBSESSION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is equal
Last Line: Panicked, I think %I'm about to die
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a god I reckon the man to be who
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful
Last Line: Caught by pains of menacing death, I falter %lost in the love-trance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That man seems to me peer of gods
Last Line: But I must dare all, since one so poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, splendour-enthroned, undying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE (1), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glittering-throned undying aphrodite
Last Line: Have done, do for me queen, and let thyself too %be my great ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE (2), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Splendor-throned queen, immortal aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OF DORIKHA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be half asleep with love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OF EROS, ANXIOUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make it last all night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OF THE MUSES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OH, MY SWEET MOTHER, 'TIS IN VAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OI YOI YOI, by VICKI FEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lady has no shame
Last Line: And chase us over the sands?
Subject(s): Erotic Love


OLD AGE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course I am downcast and tremble
Last Line: Of her who is wandering
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OLD LOVE IS BEST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all that the world holds, some deem the fairest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OLD SNAPS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I keep your old snaps in my bottom drawer
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


OLD WOMAN'S ADVICE, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: True fine gweirful daughter of iorwerth
Last Line: To enquire about payment.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ON MAKESHIFT BEDDING, by VIDYA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On makeshift %bedding in the cucumber
Last Line: Scaring the jackels off
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ON NOT BEING YOUR LOVER, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes were ever brown, the colour
Last Line: As the needs of your new and childfree girl
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion


ON YOUR DAZZLING THRONE, APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: From fearful agony. Labor %for my mad heart, and be %my ally
Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite:
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ON YOUR THRONE, A MARVEL OF ART, IMMORTAL., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ONCE UPON A TIME, THE STORY GOES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leda found a hyacinthine egg
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ONE NIGHT WHEN WE PAUSED HALF-WAY, by KATE CLANCHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw you naked, gazing past me
Last Line: Counting the strung-out poles from home
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ONE: 19, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She being brand
Last Line: To a:dead. %stand- %;still
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Erotic Love


OPALS, by JULIE O'CALLAGHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying on my stomach
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


OPPENHEIMER'S CUP AND SAUCER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She asked me to luncheon in fur. Far from
Last Line: Your legs around my neck, that's right. Yes
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ORCHARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool water among apple boughs
Last Line: Sleep falling from quicksilver leaves
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ORGASM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the mind experiencing its pleasure
Last Line: Of pleasure in the self, life singing %to life, more beautiful %even than a single mind
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ORIENTAL LILIES, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Theirs is not the smell
Last Line: Swift, disarming stain
Subject(s): Erotic Love


OTTER, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you plunged %the light of tuscany wavered
Last Line: Heavy and frisky in your freshened pelt, %printing the stones
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Otters


OVER THE EYES NIGHT'S BLACK SLUMBER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PAIN PENETRATES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My drop
Last Line: By drop
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pain


PALE BLISS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Splitting a bottle of white wine
Last Line: With a naked woman %in the middle of the day
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PARABLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time when I
Last Line: There doing strange things
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PARALYSIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother darling, I can't work the loom
Last Line: And broken me with desire for a boy
Variant Title(s): Mother Darling, I Cannot Work The Loo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PARTHENIA, PARTHENIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nowhere near you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PARTLY DEDICATED TO A HOUSE, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afraid of the window's glance all blue
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PAST LIVES, by NIN ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: No doubt we were lovers in a past life. I remember it now
Last Line: I gasped, wondering if there ever is a last time or a first
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PATCHWORK, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are ribbons that hold you together
Last Line: That scorches the walls and our low ceiling
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PEER OF THE GODS IS THAT MAN, WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than dry grass and lack little %of dying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PEERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gods %shameful
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PENAL LAW, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burn ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
Last Line: When hands are joined and head bows in the dark
Subject(s): Censorship; Erotic Love


PENIS, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: By god penis, you must be guarded
Last Line: Obvious is the rottenness through your head
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Reproductive System


PENTECOST, by MICHAEL DONAGHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The neighbours hammered on the walls all night
Last Line: Dearest, we renew the gift of tongues
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who stalks on all fours %like a beast
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cupid; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Snake-sly, invincible
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PERFUME, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman who carries the scent
Last Line: Her own hands are a scent moving %into then out of her reach
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PERSONAL COLUMN, by TOM PAULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These messages are secret, the initials
Last Line: Lonely but hopeful, to a bed somewhere?
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Newspapers


PHRASE REMEMBERED BY ARISTIDES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Brightness that strikes the eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PIETA'S OVER, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pieta's over - and, now, my dear, droll, husband
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PITY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a woman who lives
Last Line: As she goes. Not once looking back
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PLACE THERE THE NATURE OF THE VIOLET BREASTED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLACES SUCCESS ON YOUR LIPS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has made of the sun's brightness and beauty my fortune
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLAISIR D'AMOUR, by PATRICK GALVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father, against the victories of age
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PLANTER'S DAUGHTER, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When night stirred at sea
Last Line: And o she was the sunday %in every week
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PLEASE ABANTHIS, YOUR SAPPHO CALLS YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our lady of cyprus, %for praying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLEASE, MY GODDESS, GOLDENCROWNED APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let this very lot fall to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


POEM, by DENIS DEVLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking in her arms of brighness
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When your left arm twicthes
Last Line: To know is of you in me
Subject(s): Erotic Love


POET LOVES FROM HIS DISTANCE, by DESMOND O'GRADY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think now I'll whore it up for a while
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


POET SENDS HIS GENITALS AS A LOVE MESSENGER, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Miserable was dafydd's roaming
Last Line: To seduce, you and I, your sweetheart
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


POET'S REVENGE, by DAFYDD LLWYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked, I made my way proudly
Last Line: Wild fire and darts in her rump
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PORNOGRAPHY, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his knees, his back to us; the pale honeydew melons of his bare buttocks
Last Line: In whatever pleasure they %receive, or give
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PRAYER FOR CHARAXOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cypris and you nereids, bring my brother
Last Line: To his sister, let him consent to do her %honor, just this once, and her cruel sorrow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PRAYER TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal aphrodite, zeus's daughter, throne
Last Line: Goddess, do it. No one could resist if you were %fighting beside me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PRETTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Artemis
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PROMISE, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want this man to slip his hand
Last Line: For this. For a chance of this
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PROTHALAMIUM, by DONAGH MACDONAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so must I lose her whose mind
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


PSYCHOPOMP, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lay my body on this cool earth
Last Line: Let only this pollen cover me
Subject(s): Erotic Love


PURE AND HOLY GRACES AND MUSES WHO LIVE AT PIERIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


QUIETLY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying here quietly beside you
Last Line: In your thigh caressing my cheek. Quiet
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


QUOOF, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How often have I carried our family word
Last Line: Or some other shy beast %that has yet to enter the language
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


RAISE THE RIDGE-POLE HIGHER, HIGHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And he can't get it through the door
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


RAVINGS OF THE DEPRAVED MONK BENNO OF ST. GALL ..., by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love


RAYMOND OF THE ROOFTOPS, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mornng after the night
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


READING FROM THE EROTIC COMPASS OF THE WORLD, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pleasure's arrow, you've swung
Last Line: Your own homemade sun
Subject(s): Erotic Love


REBUKE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Therefore thou wouldst mingle with those and grieve me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


RECREATION, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming together %it is easier to work
Last Line: And take you made %into me
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Erotic Love


REPRISE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm very old now
Last Line: I want to make love with you %before I die
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Old Age


RESOLUTION, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arms, legs, and head gone
Last Line: They are lovers, at last
Subject(s): Erotic Love


RETURN, GONGYLA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your lovely face. %when absent
Last Line: Again: you whom of all women %I most desire
Variant Title(s): O Gongyla, My Darling Ros
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


RHETORICAL QUESTIONS, by HUGO WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you think I feel
Last Line: Down the hall of collapsing columns?
Subject(s): Erotic Love


RISK, by ANTHONY CRONIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love, since no lover yet
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


RITE OF SPRING, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So winter closed its fist
Last Line: Her entrance was wet, and she came
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She went amorously to the woods like the draw-string
Last Line: The wanton mare took the rod
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROMANCE AND SEX: UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the time you swear you're his
Last Line: One of you is lying
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Mnemonics


ROOM, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer is that room where I
Last Line: Plummets toward me, inside
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROPE-MAKERS, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes you and I are like rope-makers
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


ROSA FOETIDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm an imperfect thing
Last Line: Like the air you breathe
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROSA ODORATA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't turn a smell
Last Line: Of magnolia; eugenol, %a touch of cloves
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROSA PIMPINELLIFOLIA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O I'm leaning
Last Line: You can sleep %inside my face
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweat
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If jove would give the leafy flowers
Last Line: It blushes a diviner ray
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical


ROUGHHOUSING, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I let loose the weasel of my body
Last Line: Your pastures rush toward me to embrace me
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SAILING, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: After having loved we lie close together
Last Line: Which we have sunk in our attempt to reach each other
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SAME GESTURE, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a secret room
Last Line: Eased your snowbound %heart and flesh
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SAME WORLDS WITHIN YOU AS WITHOUT, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All bodies are the same
Last Line: Dark and light, this one sun, moon, %one and everything
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SAPHO'S ODE OUT OF LONGINUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods are not more blest than he
Last Line: I sigh, I tremble, and I dye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, I LOVED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda %forgot, %and I too %blamed you
Last Line: Even in hades %I am with you
Variant Title(s): Andromeda / Forgot / And I To
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, IF YOU DO NOT COME OUT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Among her daughters. Dearest atthis, %can you nog forget all those days?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, WHY DO YOU SUMMON APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Andromeda certainly has her fair return
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO: A GARLAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artfully adorned aphrodite, deathless
Last Line: Happen - make it happen. And stand beside me, %goddess, my ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SARD(IS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall come
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SARDIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rises over the sea that spreads between us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SARDIS, / WHERE OFTEN SHE TURNS HER THOUGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desire gnaws at her tender heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SATIRE ON DAFYDD AB EDMWND'S PENIS, by GUTO'R GLYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dafydd, worthless his existence
Last Line: Leave the stallion's penis with the flagon
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SATIRE ON GUTO'R GLYN'S TESTICLES, by DAFYDD AB EDMWND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The man whose liver has been sprained
Last Line: And because of your rupture woe the wife who has you
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SATURNALIA, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time of year comes
Last Line: A zone of eros
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SCHOLAR ARISTIDES, PONDERING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall be remembered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEALS AT HIGH ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The calamity of seals begins with jaws
Last Line: Swells in their cove, and smothers their sweet song
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Islands; Seals (animals)


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 7., by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it is godlike to sit selfpossessed
Last Line: When her chin rises and she turns to smile. %o, it is godlike!
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SECOND SKIN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even on days when the sun clears
Last Line: You're ready to change again, %until you shed another skin
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SECRET LANGUAGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I could talk to your body
Last Line: That secret language for you?
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Language; Love


SEIZURE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me that man equals a god
Last Line: I must suffer everything, being poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEIZURE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me he seems like a god
Last Line: Yet I must suffer all things, %being poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN FATHOMS LONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That struggled %to cobble them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN WAYS IN TERROR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her beauty %is
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


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


SEXUAL COUPLETS, by CRAIG RAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we are, without our clothes
Last Line: Then the broad bean dangles in its pod
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I wooed a shapely peasant girl
Last Line: Have a cunt once, have it a hundred times
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SHALL GIVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mind %luck
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHANNON ESTUARY WELCOMING THE FISH, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leap of the salmon
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SHE BEING 78, HE BEING 84, by SEAN O'TUAMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they got married, we said
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SHE CALLS HER DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE CAME, AT FIRST, PURE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Oh passion of my life, poetry, %naked, mine forever!
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Hearts; Passion; Poetry And Poets


SHE HAD OTHERS AT KYTHEREA TO NURSE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She writes these matters to andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My young love said to me, 'my brothers won't mind
Last Line: It will not be long, love, till our wedding day'
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SHE TAUGHT THE CHAMPION RUNNER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hero of gyara
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE WALKED UNAWARE, by PATRICK MACDONOGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh [or, o], she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty
Last Line: But I shall be hearing the harsh cries of wild fowl
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SHE WALKS ALONE, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the white city of evora, absence accosted me
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SHE WAS LIKE THAT SWEETEST APPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: By shepherd men, its flower purple on the ground
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SIESTA TIME IN SULTRY SUMMER, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Such afternoons are rare
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SILENCE IN DEATH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er the fates resume thy breath
Last Line: While honour'd sappho's muse-embellish'd name %shall flourish in eternity of fame
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SILENT MARRIAGE, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With your clothes on the chair
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SILENT, STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against me green %harsh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SILKEN TENT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is as in a field a silken tent
Last Line: In the capriciousness of summer air %is of the slightest bondage made aware
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Tents


SINCE WHOMEVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Injure me most of all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SINGING TO TONY BENNETT'S COCK, by VICTORIA REDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does it really matter, really, if it's true or not
Last Line: Not till you went there,' she said. 'now it's all I want'
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SITTING, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My half-sister comes to me to be painted
Last Line: Than railroads, a soiled red-letter day
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SKUNK, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
Last Line: For the black plunge-line nightdress
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Skunks


SLENDER GRACES AND MUSES WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come hither, come now
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SLICK WITH SLIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And from ( %o girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SLOE GIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clear weather of juniper
Last Line: Black sloes, bitter %and dependable
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SMALL ACTS OF DEVOTION, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower has vines green and blue
Last Line: A damp flower open again
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SMELL OF CAKE, by SEAN DUNNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the smell of cake in kitchens
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SNOW ON A MOUNTAIN, by DOM MORAES    Poem Source                    
First Line: That dream, her eyes like rocks studded the high
Last Line: Mists, and the wind that warn, stranger, o stranger!
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SNOW RED, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's the beauty sleeping in that
Last Line: Only beauty. And begins to age
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SOAP, by SINCLAIR BEILES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two youngsters clasp each other in the shower
Last Line: Those fingers feel her thighs %as grieving husband sighs
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Erotic Love


SODA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOFTER THAN A FINE DRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME PREFER A GLORY OF HORSEMEN; WARSHIPS., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Far see these than chariots of the king, than %armor in mel ee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME SAY NOTHING ON EARTH EXCELS IN BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The chariots of all lydia and all their %armoured fighting men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME SAY THRONGING CAVALRY, SOME SAY FOOT SOLDIERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All the troops in lydia in their chariots and %glittering armor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME THERE ARE WHO SAY THAT THE FAIREST THING SEEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eyes than lydia's chariots in all their glory %armored for battle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMEONE, I TELL YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet are always saved %by judgment of good men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMEONE, I'M BOLD TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In time hereafter
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMETHING FAITHLESS, by SEAMUS DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's something faithless in my touch
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SOMETIMES SHE CLOSED HER EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SONG, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where in blind files
Last Line: Followed the leaping tide
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SONG (15), by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By all love's soft, yet mighty powers
Last Line: At phyllis in foul linen
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SONG FOR A LADY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day of breasts and small hips
Last Line: As you knead me and I rise like bread
Subject(s): Erotic Love; God; Religion


SONG FOR STRAPHANGERS, by GEORGE+(1) BUCHANAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought a red-brick villa
Last Line: Sometimes I feel at peace
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete, %aphrodite
Last Line: Into our cups, %gold, and raised for the drinking
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


SONNET 27, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Ye bright stars! That on the ebon fields
Last Line: Ah! Who would wish to feel, or learn to love?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SONNETS - ACTUALITIES: 24, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like my body when it is with your
Last Line: Of under me you so quite new
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Variant Title(s): I Like My Body When It Is With You
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SONNETS FOR ROBERTA: 1, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How have I served you? I have let you waste
Last Line: I recognize %the lonely pity in your lifted eyes
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SOURCE, by JON STALLWORTHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Taking me in your body
Last Line: Loved women locked in you %and hungering to be found
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SPEAKING OF DREAMS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out from the dark bramble
Last Line: Your former whereabouts away
Subject(s): Erotic Love


SPECIMEN OF SAPPHO'S POETRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did jove a queen of flowers decree
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SPECTRUM, by AIDAN CARL MATHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything we stand up in
Last Line: Watermarks water won't budge
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SPILT MILK, by SARAH MAGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two soluble aspirins spore in this glass, their mycelia
Last Line: To hear all night the goods trains coming and leaving
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SPRING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the banks of acheron
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SPRING NIGHT, by RICHARD KELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on killiney hill that night, you said
Last Line: Nothing half-hearted or ambiguous, %but the perfect diamond of my will
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Spring


SPRING'S MESSENGER, THE LOVELY VOICED NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STAND BESIDE ME, WORSHIPED HERA, STRANGE IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Virgins ( %around
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STAR OF EVENING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperus %you bring
Last Line: Home the mothers' darling
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (planet)


STARS AROUND THE LOVELY MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the earth her radiant glow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STARS AROUND THE LUMINOUS MOON - HOW SOON THEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Glamors the landscape...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Stars


STARS AROUND THE MOON IN HER BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: From our sight
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STAYING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To say this
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STONE, by CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: For three days
Last Line: My thighs have churned %for you from stone
Subject(s): Erotic Love


STONE FLIGHT, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A piece of broken stone, granular granite, a constellation
Last Line: In the dust at a verge of meadowgrass and wild carrot
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Stones


STORMY NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this the street? Never a sign of life
Last Line: Ah heart, heart, look! I throw myself at your feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


STRAYING STUDENT, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a holy day when sails were blowing southward
Last Line: In dread, all that the clergy teach the young
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SUMMER HOME, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it wind off the dumps
Last Line: Our love calls tiny as a tuning fork
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SUNLIGHT ON THE GARDEN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And grateful too %for sunlight on the garden
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Contentment; Erotic Love; Love; Mortality; Transience


SUNUP, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun kisses my eyes open
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SUPREME SIGHT ON THE BLACK EARTH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say cavalry and others claim
Last Line: The chariots in lydia and foot soldiers armored %in glittering bronze
Variant Title(s): Some Say Cavalry And Others Clai
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SURELY ONCE YOU TOO WERE A DELICATE CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For there is no pathway up great olympos %for humankind
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWALLOW, SWALLOW, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why me, why me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWANS MATING, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even now I wish that you had been there
Last Line: Under the water like a bar of light
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SWEET KILLEN HILL; AFTER IRISH OF PEADAR O DOIRNIN, by TOM MACINTYRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flower of the flock
Last Line: That love lacks surveillance %on sweet killen hill
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


SWEET MOTHER, I CAN'T WEAVE MY WEB, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because of slender aphrodite.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWEETPEAS FLOWERED GOLDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All over the marsh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWEETVOICED GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWIM, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little rowing boat was full of
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle
Last Line: That looks right at you with a yellow eye
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Erotic Love; Love


TEARY EROTIC, by RICHARD MEIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The covering has been blown from the body
Last Line: Aglow with chemicals and phosphorescent life
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TENDER GIRL PICKING FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TENDERER THAN THE ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TENDERLOIN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This poverty recognizes %a street only as a link
Last Line: Of its own sharp corners %scrape it to orgasm
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Erotic Love


THANK YOU, MY DEAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: While you were gone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thus I pray %that %I long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion


THAT MAN SEEMS TO HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT MAN SEEMS TO ME TO BE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is, and I am, as far as I can see, %almost dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT ROOM, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Side by side on the narrow bed
Last Line: To bind us together more: equal in adversity
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


THE BIG BLACK BOOK IS NOT IN HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, late at night my lover and I drove into the desert.
Last Line: Like neighbors, like light-oblivion shadows
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Nature


THEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In gold sandals
Last Line: Dawn like a thief %fell upon me
Variant Title(s): In Gold Sandal
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


THEN DIG. CURL ITSELF UP AT THE APPROACH OF WHEELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This mention, the accidental %eden of its words
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love


THEN I SAID TO THE ELEGANT LADIES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now that you are leaving the city, %love's shapr pain encircles my heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEN LOVE SHOOK MY HEART LIKE THE WIND THAT FALLS ON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oaks in the mountains
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEN SHE IS THE GARDEN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the needle, her skin jerks
Last Line: The naked garden, orchid of ink, %tendril of painted blood
Subject(s): Erotic Love


THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For everything good for the groom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And made libations, praying all good things %for the groom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE ARE NONE LIKE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With an intelligence like hers
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE OUGHT NOT TO BE / THRENODIES IN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be fitting for us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE'S A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN CALLED 'THE SERPENT', by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


THERE'S A MAN, I REALLY BELIEVE, COMPARES WITH., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Well, endure is all I can do, reduced to...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In shame; you'd state your claim
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE ARE THE ASHES OF TIMAS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To lay on the grave
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE ARE TIMAS'S ASHES: ON THE THRESHOLD OF HER MARRIAGE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the long locks of their lovely hair and laid them on this grave
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE PISS-ELEGANT QUEENS WITH THEIR DESIGNER JEANS, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


THESE PLEASURES NOW, MY CONSTANT GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall sing in splendid songs
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEY GAVE ME HONOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The gift of their skill
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEY HAVE HONORED ME WITH THE GIFT OF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their works
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEY WORE RED YARN TO BIND THEIR HAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: These memories. Know that our name is gone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THIS BLUENESS NOT ALL BLUE, by BRIAN HENRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That is the point where we undid each other
Last Line: That week, are more than anyone could count
Subject(s): Erotic Love


THIS DUST WAS TIMAS'; ERE HER BRIDAL HOUR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cut with sharp steel their locks, the strewments for the dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THIS IS THE DUST OF TIMIAS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their lovely hair with bright sharp bronze
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOSE DISCORDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will reach the sky
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOUGH IT ISN'T EASY FOR US TO RIVAL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Goddesses in the loveliness of their figures
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOUGH YOU ARE MY LOVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I could not bear to be the older
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THREE LETTERS TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I set that man above the gods and heroes
Last Line: The time is gone %I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THRONED IN SPLENDOUR, DEATHLESS, O APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Accomplish all those things my heart desires to be done; appear %and stand at my shoulder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THROWS PEACE INTO TURMOIL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For day is near
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TIL ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maik o the gods he seems to me
Last Line: Greener nor gerss, in sic a dwalm %I kenna wha I am
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


TIMEPIECE, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Desire, that feathered clock
Last Line: Prickly stab of heat
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO A BRIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest like the gods he seems to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A GIRL, by THOMAS EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By my head girl, colour of wine in the morning
Last Line: As a hood on your arse-hole
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO A LADY WHO LAUGHED AT POETRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have no time for poetry
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A RICH UNCULTURED WOMAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead you shall lie, for ever, a name that none recall
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you desiring good and fair
Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright
Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights


TO AN UNCULTIVATED WOMAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever dead shalt thou lie under the earth; none shall remember thee
Last Line: Wand'ring, flitting amidst shades without fame, unhonoured there as here
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ANDROMEDA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That country girl has witched your wishes
Last Line: And she hasn't got the sense %to hitch her rags above her ankles
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, daughter of zeus, undying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, child of zeus
Last Line: Let my soul stay untouched. %keep my spirit yours, uncrushed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the while %I prayed
Last Line: Our night would last %twice as long
Variant Title(s): All The While, Believe Me, I Praye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ATTHIS', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, far from me and dear mnasidika
Last Line: I yearn to behold thy delicate soul %to satiate my desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO CYPRIAN APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summit of the %mountain descending
Last Line: Nectar with the gladness of our festivities %and greet this libation
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DIE IS ALL I REALLY WANT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No meadow ......... Dance %.............. And murmurings %...............
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DIE IS EVIL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Else they would die
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DREAM A LOVER AWAY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let your dream carry him %away, and by that very %dreaming, put him
Last Line: Your own easy-does-it take %on what's waiting in %the wild awake
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO GYRINNO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO JEALOUS WIVES, by GWERFUL MECHAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sort of manner is it for a person
Last Line: Who wants a bigger than average cock
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go close to death %[but must suffer all, being poor]
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion


TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO PHOIBOS THE GOLDENHAIRED WHOM KOIOS' DAUGHTER BORE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And eros never approaches her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO REQUEST A CHASTITY BELT, by HYWEL OF BUILTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The commerce of praise is a wise course
Last Line: To probe the lovely girl, or a man's cock
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember our first night in this grey
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TO THE TUNE 'A FLOATING CLOUD CROSSES ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN', by HUANG O    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every morning I get up
Last Line: And once again we fall over %overwhelmed with passion
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TO THE TUNE A FLOATING CLOUD CROSSED ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN, by HUANG HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every morning I get up
Last Line: Overwhelmed with passion
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Women


TO WHAT SHALL I BEST LIKEN YOU, DEAR BRIDEGROOM?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Most of all to a slender sapling I liken you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO WHAT, DEAR BRIDEGROOM, SHALL I COMPARE YOU?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To a tender sapling I can best compare you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO WHOSE EYES?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOAST, by THOMAS MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No lovelier city than all of this
Last Line: Like love in flat-land, eggs on toast
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TOGETHER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The water closing %over us and the
Last Line: And over, me in %your body and you %in mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TOILET, by HUGO WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wonder will I speak to the girl
Last Line: And peeing all over my face
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TONIGHT I'VE WATCHED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In bed alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of that girl gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOUCHING EACH OTHER'S SURFACES, by CAROL JANE BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skin meeting skin, we want to think
Last Line: And learns to believe in itself just enough %to believe in some one else
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love - Marital


TOWARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the arrows
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOWARD YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRLS MY THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never alter
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TRACKS, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vast bedroom %a hall of air
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Sex


TRANSLATION, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Empty of words, not empty
Last Line: Having found their tongue
Subject(s): Erotic Love


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


TRENCH FOR WATERING THE GARDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TRILOGY FOR X, SELS., by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And love hung still as crystal over the bed
Last Line: Like sap that fingered through a hungry tree %asserted our one night'/s identity
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TROILISM, by RODDY LUMSDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could mention x, locked naked
Last Line: Which was satisfying, in its own way, enough
Subject(s): Erotic Love


TRUE LIFE LOVE STORIES: 16, by MICHAEL FOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sois sage, o ma doleur - I don't %hate the young any more
Last Line: Melodious with %new-found gallantry
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TRUE LOVE, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of the night, when we get up
Last Line: I cannot see beyond it. I cannot see beyond it
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


TRULY I WISH I WERE DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You quenched your desire %for tender
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TURKISH CARPET, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No man could have been more unfaithful
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Erotic Love; Rugs


TWENTY-YEAR MARRIAGE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You keep me waiting in a truck
Last Line: Old newspapers nobody's ever got to read again
Alternate Author Name(s): Ai
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage


TWO SANQU LYRICS, TO THE TUNE ZHE GUI LING, by HUANG E    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll write to you that thoughtless ingrate, that callous fellow
Last Line: Until we meet, my itching heart cannot be scratched
Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love


TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it
Last Line: We murmur the first moonwords: %spasibo. Thanks. O.K
Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Metaphor


TWO SPOONS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After we have made love
Last Line: Fingers and we fall asleep
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


UNDER THE LINDEN TREE, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: One small bird excepted %tandaradei!
Subject(s): Erotic Love


UNDERGROUND, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There we were in the vaulted tunnel running
Last Line: For your step following and damned if I look back
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


UNDERWEAR, by WILLIAM PESKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the box arrived he was so proud
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


UNSPOKEN, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I hug you tight at bedtime
Last Line: I'm not supposed to know you've read
Subject(s): Erotic Love


UNTIL ALL OF YOU ARE WILLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


UPROOTING, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, while we talked
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


USED CONDOMS, by ROGER ARMBRUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I label each one with the date
Last Line: I don't know what else to do
Subject(s): Erotic Love


VETERAN, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even before the fear of blackmail and police
Last Line: And put sex away, probably forever
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Erotic Love; Sickness


VII. (PARTISAN OF EROTIC ABSOLUTISM), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Partisan of erotic absolutism, reticent megalomaniac even among the diving
Last Line: To my temples, I watch myself in profile and await the spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Finality


VINES TRELLISED ON POLES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VIOLET BREASTED DAUGHTER OF KRONOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VIRGINITY, VIRGINITY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND LEFT ME?', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never again will I come to you, never again.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VISION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go so that %we can see
Last Line: Which is %our fate
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VOLCANO IS DARK, by MALCOLM LOWRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The volcano is dark, and suddenly thunder
Last Line: Or the groans of love --
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Volcanoes


VOYEUR, by RODDY LUMSDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ask her, what's sexy? Watching, she says
Last Line: The rutting motion of the rocking chair
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WARMING HER PEARLS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
Last Line: I feel their absence and I burn
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Pearls


WARREN, YOU POOR MAN! MY GOD, HOW YOU HAVE, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WE ARE LIVING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is this room
Last Line: On what our hands have touched, %our eyes have seen
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WE SHALL GIVE, FATHER SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WE WILL GIVE HER, HER FATHER SAYS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WE'RE SUCH PRICKLY, SNAPPING ANIMALS, MARK, IT'S A, by ASS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WEAKER THAN WATER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT EXCELLENCE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The best of blessedness
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT MORAL SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: There is no higher fortune
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT VIRTUE IS NO HARMLESS NEIGHBOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WET HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHAT COUNTRY GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How to make a dress %come down to her feet?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHAT GOOD ARE KISSES, JIMMIE, IF YOU DON'T PRESS, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHAT MISERY! LEWIS, RIPE FOR LOVE AT SIXTEEN, HAS EVERY, by SCYTHINUS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MONEY, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the bride who wears
Last Line: That last thing you dreamed %you'd ever do
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHEN ANGER SPREADS INSIDE YOU BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Keep watch against an idly barking tongue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN DEATH HAS LAID YOU DOWN AMONG HIS OWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reticent still, with the blind dead, unknown
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN FURY RAGES IN THE BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Watch that reiterating tongue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN I WALK, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carry with me
Last Line: I carry with me %these open hands
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHEN NIGHTLONG SLUMBER CLOSES THEIR EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN SHE, THE ROUND MOON, ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They stood in a ring around her altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN SONGS FROM THE HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN THE PIGEONS' SPIRITS GROW COLD THEY LET THEIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wings droop at their sides
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN YOU LIE ON A SLAB STRETCHED OUT DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even in the corridors of underwood light no %one will notice you strut among the bloodless dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHERE DO THE BUTLER'S BIG FEET GO?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Besplendor those important feet
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHERE THE ANIMAL GOES WHEN I AM AWAKE, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After my last breath of sleep
Last Line: Turns to me, turns into me. I return
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHERE, THEN WHO YOU ARE, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the mirror world beneath
Last Line: Subterranean milk of stars
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHETHER CYPRUS KEEPS YOU OR PAPHOS OR PANORMOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHETHER YOU ARE AT KYPROS AND PAPHOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or at panormos
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHILE THEY KEPT WATCH AROUND HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lords of the town
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHIM, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was sitting with a pint and a small one
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WHITE ASPARAGUS, by SUJATA BHATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who speaks of the strong currents
Last Line: Even the smell pulls her in
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHITER BY FAR THAN AN EGG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHITER THAN MILK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHO CROWNED YOU WITH ROSES, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHO IS THIS WILD GIRL WITH THE CHARM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So that the hem is at the ankle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHO SHADOWS THE SUN, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the moon rises, %fields of bronze
Last Line: The darkness both comes %and gives away
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you put your legs up
Last Line: So graceful and spontane- %ous movement of a dancer
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Erotic Love; Labrunie, Gerard (1808-1855); Legs


WHY I AM THE LAST OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LOVERS, by WILLIAM PESKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When shadowboxing in the saturday backstalls
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WHY, AFTER SO LONG, SHOULD I DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of those girlish days?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHY, O IRANA, DOES PANDION'S DAUGHTER THE SWALLOW, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wake me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Last Line: I tell new weather
Subject(s): Environment; Erotic Love; Love; Trees


WIND, FROZEN, RIPS LEAVES, by ALFREDO DE PALCHI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Into the family of your body
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WINDOW DRESSING, by WILLIAM PESKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beautiful man and his wife
Last Line: Slipping back into shape
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WINTER'S COLD, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May, and the wall was warm again. For miles
Last Line: The winter's cold that holds us together lonely?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Spring


WISE IN MANY THINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH EYES LIKE THAT, STAND STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bold as friends before each other
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH NO ONE TO LOVE YOU ARE DUMB. I, FOR EXAMPLE, AM, by ALPHEIUS OF MYTILENE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WITH QUICKENED HEART THEY HOVERED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My heart grows chill
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH THAT ISLAND-BORN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all in a dream
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH THE BRIDE THAT HAPPY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let the bridegroom rejoice
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH WHAT EYES?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITHOUT GUILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WOMAN REMEMBERS WATER, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sun and moon are painted
Last Line: Darker sisters, darker bodies
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She hears me strike the board and say
Last Line: That his hair is beautiful, %cold as the march wind his eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What lively lad most pleasured me
Last Line: There's not a bird of day that dare %extinquish that daylight
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WOMEN DON'T MOVE ME, BUT HOT STIFF COCKS, LIKE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WORD WENT AROUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Young beyond acheron
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORDS RISE FROM NOWHERE ELSE, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despite the whisper of death
Last Line: My life would stop
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WORK, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the house
Last Line: With the wing of a bird
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Labor And Laborers; Nature


WORLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not hope
Last Line: To touch the sky %with my two arms
Variant Title(s): I Could Not Hop
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORMWOOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is humiliating
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORMWOOD: FIRST LIGHT, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A prone couple still sleeps
Last Line: Unendurable
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love


WOUND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This longing to be healed in you
Last Line: Each night in bed without you %is a struggle to breathe
Variant Title(s): Longin
Subject(s): Erotic Love


WRAPPED UP IN RICH SHAGGY WOOL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YEARNING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wilt in your absence
Last Line: As they stamp purple blossoms %into the green grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YESTERDAY IN THE BATHS, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU CAME, AND I WAS MAD TO HAVE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your breath cooled my heart that was burning with desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU CAME. AND YOU DID WELL TO COME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Welcome, darling, be blessed three times %for all the hours of our separation
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HATE ME WHO LOVES YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And flutter around andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE BEGUN TO FORGET ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or do you love some other?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE COME, AND DONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That burned my heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or else you love some other person more than me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU LAY IN WAIT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And suddenly: beauty %of your garments
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU MAKE ME HOT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU OUGHT TO STOP THIS SEARCH FOR PERVERSE PLEASURE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU REST YOUR SPLENDID BACKSIDE AND BUTTOCKS AGAINST, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU SAY YOU ONLY WANT THE BOY'S FRIENDSHIP, by ASS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO ARRANGE SCENARIOS FOR LOVE, by CLEONIDAS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU SHOWED UP. I WANTED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who in a breath chilled me to the marrow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU TOO, KALLIOPA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yourself
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WERE TO ME THEN A SHY LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WHO SPURNED ME AND MY SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, no thought of you from anyone
Last Line: Unseen, and restless there, among the corpses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WILL DIE AND NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In hades' house, and flutter about %among the dark, not illustrious dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU'LL BE CAUGHT, DONALD, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO,' I, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU'RE ASLEEP, DAPHNIS, NEARLY NAKED ON A BED OF, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU'RE CAUGHT, GREG, IN LOVE WITH A BOY, AND GAPING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOU'RE YOUNG. YOU'VE HOOKED ME. I'M THE FISH, by STRATO    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Straton
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOUNG BRIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to the apple reddest-bright
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOUR DARLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOUR LOVE, DAMON, IS UNPREDICTABLE AS A SPRING STORM, by MELEAGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Erotic Love


YOUR ONE GOOD DRESS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should never be light. That kind of thing feels
Last Line: Taking it off never matters. That just wears you down
Subject(s): Erotic Love


ZION SAID', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O slain for love of me, canst thou be cold
Last Line: Oh take me to thyself and comfort me
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Comfort; Erotic Love; Weariness; God