Poems about Erotica

• Your Strange Hair

  Your strange hair, cold light,
  Has pale glows and blond dullness;

  by Renee Vivien 16 lines
• Psyche ; or, the Legend of Love: Canto V.

  Delightful visions of my lonely hours!
  Charm of my life and solace of my care!

  by Mary Tighe 549 lines
• The Pack-Saddle

  A FAMOUS painter, jealous of his wife;
  Whose charms he valued more than fame or life,

  by Jean de La Fontaine 22 lines
• Nicaise

  TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;
  Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 222 lines
• The Two Friends

  AXIOCHUS, a handsome youth of old,
  And Alcibiades, (both gay and bold,)

  by Jean de La Fontaine 18 lines
• The Amorous Courtesan

  DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,
  In ev'ry age works miracles a store;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 325 lines
• The Jealous Husband

  A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear,
  With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear,

  by Jean de La Fontaine 42 lines
• Home Truths for Varus’s girl: to Varus

  Whether they’re his or mine, what difference to me?
  I use them just as well as if I’d bought them myself.

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 34 lines
• Sonnet I

  Down the strait vistas where a city street
  Fades in pale dust and vaporous distances,

  by Alan Seeger 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Dress-Maker

  A CLOISTERED nun had a lover
  Dwelling in the neighb'ring town;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 27 lines
• The Rhemese

  NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:
  Of France the pride and honour I aver;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 214 lines
• The Clyster

  IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;
  To found our tales on what we can rely;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 110 lines
• Sister Jane

  WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child,
  In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled

  by Jean de La Fontaine 8 lines
• The Picture

  SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,
  In which (though true, decorum must prevail),

  by Jean de La Fontaine 246 lines
• The Bayadere

  Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays
  More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid

  by Alan Seeger 24 lines
• A Pastoral Courtship

  Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet
  How all these boughes together meet!

  by Thomas Randolph 202 lines
• Hans Carvel's Ring

  HANS CARVEL took, when weak and late in life;
  A girl, with youth and beauteous charms to wife;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 32 lines
• The Progress Of Wit

  DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,
  Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 134 lines, 2 comments
• The Case Of Conscience

  THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease
  Both names and titles, freely as they please.

  by Jean de La Fontaine 144 lines
• The Countryman Who Sought His Calf

  A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost,
  And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 16 lines
• The Gascon

  I AM always inclined to suspect
  The best story under the sun

  by Jean de La Fontaine 38 lines
• The Pitcher

  THE simple Jane was sent to bring
  Fresh water from the neighb'ring spring;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 33 lines
• The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant

  WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,
  When men are duped by artful women's eves;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 68 lines
• The Indiscreet Confessions

  FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,
  Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,

  by Jean de La Fontaine 128 lines
• Sonnet XII

  Like as a dryad, from her native bole
  Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge,

  by Alan Seeger 14 lines
• Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay

  YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place,
  The last effusions of my muse to grace.

  by Jean de La Fontaine 304 lines
• The Little Bell

  HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind!
  His promises are naught, too oft we find;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 74 lines
• El Émbolo Brillante y Engrasado

  El émbolo brillante y engrasado
  embiste jubiloso la ranura

  by Severo Sarduy 20 lines
• The Impossible Thing

  A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,
  So great a charm was prompted to impart;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 92 lines
• Mentana : First Anniversary

  At the time when the stars are grey,
  And the gold of the molten moon

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 90 lines

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