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Preface | p. XVII |
The little sycamore she planted | p. 1 |
My lover is a lotus blossom | p. 2 |
He is the love-wolf | p. 3 |
He is almost a god, a man beside you | p. 4 |
I love | p. 5 |
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul | p. 6 |
Weaving a garland long ago | p. 7 |
Think how unspeakably sweet | p. 8 |
Didyme waved an olive branch at me | p. 9 |
from The Song of Songs (ca. 3rd century bce) | p. 10 |
Peeking in through | p. 19 |
Whether I see you now | p. 20 |
Her foot sparkled like silver | p. 21 |
How could I have known | p. 22 |
I can't hear to watch your hips | p. 23 |
Her perfect naked breast | p. 24 |
He is like a god | p. 25 |
My woman says she'd rather have me | p. 26 |
Sweet sparrow, my lover's pet | p. 27 |
Your sins have brought my mind so low | p. 28 |
My lovely, sweet Ipsithilla | p. 29 |
Xanthippe, singing at her lyre | p. 30 |
Elegy to His Mistress | p. 31 |
Doing, a Filthy Pleasure Is, and Short | p. 33 |
Busy in the Spring | p. 34 |
A Smile | p. 35 |
Song | p. 36 |
Beautiful Melite, in the throes of middle age | p. 37 |
Phyllis, loving Demophoon | p. 38 |
And there lay the lovers, lip-locked | p. 39 |
Come, give me kisses, Rhodope | p. 40 |
Take off your clothes, my love! | p. 41 |
Even clothed in wrinkles, dear Philinna | p. 42 |
Women of Yueh | p. 43 |
Blue Water | p. 44 |
Resentment Near the Jade Steps | p. 45 |
Longing for Someone | p. 46 |
Late evening finally comes | p. 47 |
When my wife left home | p. 48 |
Lament | p. 49 |
Remembering | p. 50 |
Bamboo Mat | p. 51 |
Elegy | p. 52 |
Empty House | p. 54 |
Melancholic | p. 55 |
Is that the same moon? | p. 56 |
To the Tune: The Wine Spring ("Eternal autumn rain--") | p. 57 |
To the Tune: The Wine Spring ("Rain falls ...") | p. 58 |
Early morning glows | p. 59 |
As night follows night | p. 60 |
I long for him most | p. 61 |
My black hair tangled | p. 62 |
When I think of you | p. 63 |
Song | p. 64 |
I'd sell my soul for that fawn | p. 65 |
That's it--I love that fawn | p. 66 |
Faint Thunder Drifts beneath the Willow | p. 67 |
The Pool Is Full of Autumn Sky, Rippled by Gentle Breezes | p. 68 |
Deep, Deep in the Shade of the Court | p. 69 |
Remembering My Wife | p. 70 |
Plum Blossoms | p. 72 |
Spring at Wu Ling | p. 73 |
Butterflies Love Flowers | p. 74 |
The Washing Stream | p. 75 |
Boat of Stars | p. 76 |
On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes | p. 77 |
Like This | p. 78 |
You that love Lovers | p. 81 |
When I see Your Face | p. 82 |
What I want is to see your face | p. 83 |
On Love | p. 85 |
If constancy in love ... | p. 86 |
Love delivers to me its sweetest thoughts | p. 87 |
Face to Face with My Lover on Daito's Anniversary | p. 88 |
Song of the Dream Garden | p. 89 |
My Hand Is Lady Mori's Hand | p. 90 |
Night Talk in a Dream Chamber | p. 91 |
My Love's Dark Place Is Fragrant like Narcissus | p. 92 |
Elegy | p. 93 |
Give up erotic games, Kabir | p. 94 |
Sometimes, everywhere I look | p. 95 |
First Love | p. 96 |
Dark One | p. 97 |
Don't block my way, friend | p. 98 |
Having wet me with love | p. 99 |
A glimpse of your body | p. 100 |
Sonnet CXXIX | p. 101 |
As if to lift my babe-in-arms | p. 102 |
When I found her in the bathing pool | p. 103 |
All day she studies her new love-bite in the mirror | p. 104 |
Loveliness beyond words | p. 105 |
Delight in Disorder | p. 106 |
Clothes Do but Cheat and Cozen Us | p. 107 |
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast | p. 108 |
To His Mistress | p. 109 |
To My Dear and Loving Husband | p. 110 |
Your breasts will not fall | p. 111 |
To His Coy Mistress | p. 112 |
Song for a Girl | p. 114 |
Which Contains a Fantasy Satisfied with a Love Befitting It | p. 115 |
Oysters | p. 116 |
from Visions | p. 117 |
The Question Answer'd | p. 118 |
Sharing Eve's Apple | p. 119 |
Woman's Love Song | p. 121 |
from I Sing the Body Electric | p. 122 |
from I Sing the Body Electric | p. 124 |
A Woman Waits for Me | p. 126 |
I Am He That Aches with Love | p. 129 |
City of Orgies | p. 130 |
Possessed | p. 131 |
I won't care | p. 132 |
Wild Nights | p. 133 |
Fires run through my body ... | p. 134 |
Oxaitoq's Song | p. 135 |
Passion and Love | p. 136 |
Longing | p. 137 |
If I were a poet | p. 138 |
Spring quickly passes | p. 139 |
A thousand strands | p. 140 |
Are you still longing | p. 141 |
The Guest | p. 142 |
The Unfaithful Wife | p. 144 |
Body of a Woman | p. 147 |
Love Song | p. 148 |
Sottoportico San Zaccaria | p. 149 |
Quietly | p. 150 |
More Beautiful than Your Eyes | p. 151 |
A Coal Fire in Winter | p. 153 |
Two Sonnets | p. 154 |
Our Bodies | p. 156 |
The Mutes | p. 158 |
The Glass | p. 160 |
A Form of Women | p. 161 |
The Rain | p. 163 |
from Twenty-one Love Poems | p. 165 |
The Most Ancient Names of Fire | p. 166 |
Poem for Easter | p. 168 |
The women you are accustomed to | p. 170 |
Song at midnight | p. 171 |
Night comes and extinguishes the numbers ... | p. 173 |
Ten Thousand Sutras | p. 174 |
from Brief Lessons in Eroticism I | p. 176 |
For Every Heart | p. 179 |
Perpetua | p. 180 |
Shiva's Prowess | p. 181 |
The Lovers | p. 183 |
The Thief | p. 185 |
Notes on the Poets | p. 187 |
Credits | p. 205 |
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