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Les Bijoux by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Jacques LeClercq)

Les Bijoux by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Jacques LeClercq)

Feb 6, 2017 | Erotic, Love, Quatrains, The Work of Greater Minds

Naked was my dark love, and, knowing my heart, Adorned in but her most sonorous gems, Their high pomp decked her with the conquering art Of Moorish slave girls crowned with diadems. Dancing for me with lively, mocking sound, This world of stone and metal, brittle and...
Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oct 11, 2016 | Erotic, Italian Sonnet, Love, Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds

Lying asleep between the strokes of night   I saw my love lean over my sad bed,   Pale as the duskiest lily’s leaf or head, Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite, Too wan for blushing and too warm for white,   But...
La Petite Mort: a breath of agony

La Petite Mort: a breath of agony

Sep 12, 2016 | Erotic, Gus Stevens, Italian Sonnet, Love, Sonnet

The body delights in its own travail,     both teased and tortured by a pulsing strain     with claws of pleasure resembling pain. She prophesies but cannot pierce the veil; she approaches but cannot breach the pale....
A Seduction: in Four Seasons

A Seduction: in Four Seasons

Jul 15, 2016 | Alexandrine, Autumn, Erotic, Gus Stevens, Love, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Winter

Look my young fool, born with the Spring’s first green, our morning is all spent and now the afternoon bleeds red in the west. Will you really be so mean as to ignore the pot you set upon the coals? I want you, and the water will be boiling soon. Come, Fool,...
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

Jul 10, 2016 | Alexandrine, Erotic, Love, Regret, The Work of Greater Minds

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee,...
Roll On Columbia: a sonnet for our tenth anniversary.

Roll On Columbia: a sonnet for our tenth anniversary.

Jul 1, 2016 | Aging, Erotic, Gus Stevens, Love, Sinner's Psalms vol. 2, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet

The bargain wine and complimented treats were finished hours ago: the hotel’s gift for our tenth anniversary. Now, as we shift our bodies beneath borrowed cotton sheets, could there be a better time to rehearse the old arguments, those familiar friends? Our...
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