Erotic Spirit - Hardcover
Explores the spiritual aspects of eros through poems by Sappho, Ovid, Tzu Yeh, Li Po, Izumi Shikibu, Kabir, Anne Bradstreet, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Gioconda Belli, and Dorianne Laux
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Sam Hamill is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and translations from the classical Chinese and Japanese, ancient Greek, Latin, and other languages. He has been a recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. He lives near Port Townsend, Washington.
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Beautiful Melite, In The Throes Of Middle Age by Agathias Scholasticus
Weaving A Garland Long Ago by Anacreon
More Beautiful Than Your Eyes by Sa'id Aql
Is That The Same Moon? by Ariwara No Narihira
Didyme Waved An Olive Branch At Me by Asclepiades Of Samos
Think How Unspeakably Sweet by Asclepiades Of Samos
Possessed by Charles Baudelaire
Brief Lessons In Eroticism I, Sels. by Giaconda Belli
The Song Of Songs, Sels. by Bible
All Day She Studies Her New by Bihari
As If To Lift My Babe-in-arms by Bihari
Loveliness Beyond Words by Bihari
When I Found Her In The Bathing Pool by Bihari
The Question Answer'd by William Blake
Visions, Sels. by William Blake
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
For Every Heart by Olga Broumas
Perpetua by Olga Broumas
Sonnet: 10 by Hayden Carruth
Sonnet: 9 by Hayden Carruth
He Is Like A God by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
My Lovely, Sweet Ipsithilla by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
My Woman Says She'd Rather Have Me by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Sweet Sparrow, My Lover's Pet by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Your Sins Have Brought My Mind So Low by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Song At Midnight by Lucille Clifton
The Women You Are Accustomed To by Lucille Clifton
Won't You Celebrate With Me by Lucille Clifton
Phyllis, Loving Demophoon by Cometas Chartularius
A Form Of Women by Robert Creeley
The Rain by Robert Creeley
Which Contains A Fantasy Satisfied With A Love Befitting It by Juana Ines De La Cruz
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Love Triumphant: Song For A Girl by John Dryden
Longing by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Passion And Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Unfaithful Wife by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Guest by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Ten Thousand Sutras; After Hakuin's Meditation Sutra by Sam Hamill
Clothes Do But Cheat And Cozen Us by Robert Herrick
Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
To His Mistreeses by Robert Herrick
Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast by Robert Herrick
On Love by Hsu Tsai-ssu
Elegy by Ikkyu Sojun
Face-to-face With My Lover On Daito's Anniversary by Ikkyu Sojun
My Hand Is Lady Mori's Hand by Ikkyu Sojun
My Love's Dark Place Is Fragrant Like Narcissus by Ikkyu Sojun
Night Talk In A Dream Chamber by Ikkyu Sojun
Song Of The Dream Garden by Ikkyu Sojun
My Black Hair Tangled by Izumi Shikibu
When I Think Of You by Izumi Shikibu
Like This by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
What I Want Is To See Your Face by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
When I See Your Face, The Stones Start Spinning! by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
You That Love Lovers by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Give Up Erotic Games, Kabir by Kabir
Sometimes, Everywhere I Look by Kabir
Night Comes And Extinguishes The Numbers And The Year by Jaan Kaplinski
Poem For Easter by Robert Kelly
The Glass by Carolyn Kizer
The Lovers by Dorianne Laux
The Thief by Dorianne Laux
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
Our Bodies by Denise Levertov
Boat Of Stars by Li Ch'ing-chao
Butterflies Love Flowers by Li Ch'ing-chao
Plum Blossoms by Li Ch'ing-chao
Spring At Wu Ling by Li Ch'ing-chao
The Washing Stream by Li Ch'ing-chao
Melancholic by Li Ho
The Wine Spring by Li Hsun
The Wine Spring by Li Hsun
Blue Water by Li Po
Longing For Someone by Li Po
Resentment Near The Jade Steps by Li Po
Women Of Yueh by Li Po
Song by Liu Yung
If I Were A Poet by Antonio Machado Ruiz
On Her Decision To Stop Wearing Clothes by Mahadevi
Her Perfect Naked Breast by Marcus Argentarius
I Can't Bear To Watch Your Hips by Marcus Argentarius
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
A Coal Fire In Winter by Thomas Mcgrath
Dark One by Mirabai
Don't Block My Way, Friend by Mirabai
A Glimpse Of Your Body by Mirabai
Having Wet Me With Love by Mirabai
I Long For Him Most by Ono No Komachi
Late Evening Finally Comes by Otomo No Yakamochi
When My Wife Left Home by Otomo No Yakamochi
Deep, Deep In The Shade Of The Court by Ou Yangxiu
Faint Thunder Drifts Beneath The Willow by Ou Yangxiu
The Pool Is Full Of Autumn Sky, Rippled By Gentle Breezes by Ou Yangxiu
And There Lay The Lovers, Lip-locked by Paulus Silentiarius
Come, Give Me Kissis, Rhodope by Paulus Silentiarius
Even Clothed In Wrinkles, Dear Philinna by Paulus Silentiarius
Take Off You Clothes, My Love! by Paulus Silentiarius
If Constancy In Love, If A Brave Heart by Petrarch
Love Delivers To Me Its Sweetest Thoughts by Petrarch
Xanthippe, Singing At Her Lyre by Philodemus Of Gadara
Peeking In Through by Praxilla
Elegy To His Mistress by Publius Ovidius Naso
Quietly by Kenneth Rexroth
Sottoportico San Zaccaria by Kenneth Rexroth
Body Of A Woman by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Love Song by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Twenty-one Love Poems: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Her Foot Sparkled Like Silver by Rufinus
How Could I Have Known by Rufinus
I'd Sell My Soul For That Fawn by Samuel Hanagid
That's It - I Love That Fawn by Samuel Hanagid
Eros Seizes And Shakes My Very Soul by Sappho
He Is Almost A God, A Man Beside You by Sappho
I Love by Sappho
Your Breasts Will Not Fall by Se Praj
Sonnet: 129 by William Shakespeare
Shiva's Prowess by Maurya Simon
The Most Ancient Names Of Fire by Roberto Sosa
Remembering My Wife by Su Shih
Oysters by Jonathan Swift
Keeping Endless Holiday by Titus Petronius Niger
Busy In The Spring by Tzu Yeh
A Smile by Tzu Yeh
Song by Tzu Yeh
As Night Follows Night by Anonymous
Early Morning Glows by Anonymous
Fires Run Through My Body - The Pain Of Loving You by Anonymous
He Is The Love-wolf by Anonymous
I Won't Care by Anonymous
Lament by Anonymous
The Little Sycamore She Planted by Anonymous
My Lover Is A Lotus Blossom by Anonymous
Oxaitoq's Song by Anonymous
Whether I See You Now by Anonymous
Woman's Love Song by Anonymous
First Love by Vidyapati
5. Female by Walt Whitman
6. Male by Walt Whitman
City Of Orgies by Walt Whitman
I Am He That Aches With Love by Walt Whitman
A Woman Waits For Me by Walt Whitman
Are You Still Longing by Yosano Akiko
Spring Quickly Passes by Yosano Akiko
A Thousand Strands by Yosano Akiko
Bamboo Mat by Yuan Chen
Elegy by Yuan Chen
Empty House by Yuan Chen
Remembering by Yuan Chen
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Weaving A Garland Long Ago by Anacreon
More Beautiful Than Your Eyes by Sa'id Aql
Is That The Same Moon? by Ariwara No Narihira
Didyme Waved An Olive Branch At Me by Asclepiades Of Samos
Think How Unspeakably Sweet by Asclepiades Of Samos
Possessed by Charles Baudelaire
Brief Lessons In Eroticism I, Sels. by Giaconda Belli
The Song Of Songs, Sels. by Bible
All Day She Studies Her New by Bihari
As If To Lift My Babe-in-arms by Bihari
Loveliness Beyond Words by Bihari
When I Found Her In The Bathing Pool by Bihari
The Question Answer'd by William Blake
Visions, Sels. by William Blake
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
For Every Heart by Olga Broumas
Perpetua by Olga Broumas
Sonnet: 10 by Hayden Carruth
Sonnet: 9 by Hayden Carruth
He Is Like A God by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
My Lovely, Sweet Ipsithilla by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
My Woman Says She'd Rather Have Me by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Sweet Sparrow, My Lover's Pet by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Your Sins Have Brought My Mind So Low by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Song At Midnight by Lucille Clifton
The Women You Are Accustomed To by Lucille Clifton
Won't You Celebrate With Me by Lucille Clifton
Phyllis, Loving Demophoon by Cometas Chartularius
A Form Of Women by Robert Creeley
The Rain by Robert Creeley
Which Contains A Fantasy Satisfied With A Love Befitting It by Juana Ines De La Cruz
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Love Triumphant: Song For A Girl by John Dryden
Longing by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Passion And Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Unfaithful Wife by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Guest by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Ten Thousand Sutras; After Hakuin's Meditation Sutra by Sam Hamill
Clothes Do But Cheat And Cozen Us by Robert Herrick
Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
To His Mistreeses by Robert Herrick
Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast by Robert Herrick
On Love by Hsu Tsai-ssu
Elegy by Ikkyu Sojun
Face-to-face With My Lover On Daito's Anniversary by Ikkyu Sojun
My Hand Is Lady Mori's Hand by Ikkyu Sojun
My Love's Dark Place Is Fragrant Like Narcissus by Ikkyu Sojun
Night Talk In A Dream Chamber by Ikkyu Sojun
Song Of The Dream Garden by Ikkyu Sojun
My Black Hair Tangled by Izumi Shikibu
When I Think Of You by Izumi Shikibu
Like This by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
What I Want Is To See Your Face by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
When I See Your Face, The Stones Start Spinning! by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
You That Love Lovers by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Give Up Erotic Games, Kabir by Kabir
Sometimes, Everywhere I Look by Kabir
Night Comes And Extinguishes The Numbers And The Year by Jaan Kaplinski
Poem For Easter by Robert Kelly
The Glass by Carolyn Kizer
The Lovers by Dorianne Laux
The Thief by Dorianne Laux
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
Our Bodies by Denise Levertov
Boat Of Stars by Li Ch'ing-chao
Butterflies Love Flowers by Li Ch'ing-chao
Plum Blossoms by Li Ch'ing-chao
Spring At Wu Ling by Li Ch'ing-chao
The Washing Stream by Li Ch'ing-chao
Melancholic by Li Ho
The Wine Spring by Li Hsun
The Wine Spring by Li Hsun
Blue Water by Li Po
Longing For Someone by Li Po
Resentment Near The Jade Steps by Li Po
Women Of Yueh by Li Po
Song by Liu Yung
If I Were A Poet by Antonio Machado Ruiz
On Her Decision To Stop Wearing Clothes by Mahadevi
Her Perfect Naked Breast by Marcus Argentarius
I Can't Bear To Watch Your Hips by Marcus Argentarius
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
A Coal Fire In Winter by Thomas Mcgrath
Dark One by Mirabai
Don't Block My Way, Friend by Mirabai
A Glimpse Of Your Body by Mirabai
Having Wet Me With Love by Mirabai
I Long For Him Most by Ono No Komachi
Late Evening Finally Comes by Otomo No Yakamochi
When My Wife Left Home by Otomo No Yakamochi
Deep, Deep In The Shade Of The Court by Ou Yangxiu
Faint Thunder Drifts Beneath The Willow by Ou Yangxiu
The Pool Is Full Of Autumn Sky, Rippled By Gentle Breezes by Ou Yangxiu
And There Lay The Lovers, Lip-locked by Paulus Silentiarius
Come, Give Me Kissis, Rhodope by Paulus Silentiarius
Even Clothed In Wrinkles, Dear Philinna by Paulus Silentiarius
Take Off You Clothes, My Love! by Paulus Silentiarius
If Constancy In Love, If A Brave Heart by Petrarch
Love Delivers To Me Its Sweetest Thoughts by Petrarch
Xanthippe, Singing At Her Lyre by Philodemus Of Gadara
Peeking In Through by Praxilla
Elegy To His Mistress by Publius Ovidius Naso
Quietly by Kenneth Rexroth
Sottoportico San Zaccaria by Kenneth Rexroth
Body Of A Woman by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Love Song by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Twenty-one Love Poems: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Her Foot Sparkled Like Silver by Rufinus
How Could I Have Known by Rufinus
I'd Sell My Soul For That Fawn by Samuel Hanagid
That's It - I Love That Fawn by Samuel Hanagid
Eros Seizes And Shakes My Very Soul by Sappho
He Is Almost A God, A Man Beside You by Sappho
I Love by Sappho
Your Breasts Will Not Fall by Se Praj
Sonnet: 129 by William Shakespeare
Shiva's Prowess by Maurya Simon
The Most Ancient Names Of Fire by Roberto Sosa
Remembering My Wife by Su Shih
Oysters by Jonathan Swift
Keeping Endless Holiday by Titus Petronius Niger
Busy In The Spring by Tzu Yeh
A Smile by Tzu Yeh
Song by Tzu Yeh
As Night Follows Night by Anonymous
Early Morning Glows by Anonymous
Fires Run Through My Body - The Pain Of Loving You by Anonymous
He Is The Love-wolf by Anonymous
I Won't Care by Anonymous
Lament by Anonymous
The Little Sycamore She Planted by Anonymous
My Lover Is A Lotus Blossom by Anonymous
Oxaitoq's Song by Anonymous
Whether I See You Now by Anonymous
Woman's Love Song by Anonymous
First Love by Vidyapati
5. Female by Walt Whitman
6. Male by Walt Whitman
City Of Orgies by Walt Whitman
I Am He That Aches With Love by Walt Whitman
A Woman Waits For Me by Walt Whitman
Are You Still Longing by Yosano Akiko
Spring Quickly Passes by Yosano Akiko
A Thousand Strands by Yosano Akiko
Bamboo Mat by Yuan Chen
Elegy by Yuan Chen
Empty House by Yuan Chen
Remembering by Yuan Chen
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- Publication date1995
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