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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EROTIC LOVE Matches Found: 1074 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 |
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