Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from In Memoriam, 1850
George Gordon, Lord Byron
When We Two Parted
and Thyrza's poems
A. E. Housman
from his "Last Poems"
Walt Whitman
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Kahlil Gibran
Excerpt from The Prophet
Wilfred Owen
Two Poems
Antonio Machado
Proverbios y Cantares - XXIX, 1909
W. H. Auden
Three Poems and some excerps
James Joyce
On the Beach at Fontana
Thom Gunn
from The Passages of Joy, 1982
from The Man with Night Sweats, 1992
Richard Barnfield
Four Sonnets
Hart Crane
Some excerpts
Emily Dickinson
Some poems
Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
At Bahia
Jean Genet
Le Pêcheur du Suquet (excerpts)
Robert Graves
Two poems
Angelina Weld Grimké
Some poems
Emperor Jinwen
Encomium to his beloved boy
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuz'min
Antinous, from Alexandrian Songs
Amy (Lawrence) Lowell
Venus Transiens,
and Madonna of the Evening Flowers
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Martial
Poems, epigrams and fragments
Michelangelo
Some love poems
Sandro Penna
To the moon, and some excerpts
Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream within a Dream, and Alone
Angel Politian
Song of Orpheus
Saadi
Gulistân (excerpts)
Sappho
Fragments
John A. Symonds
Some poems
Sara Teasdale
Some quatrains
Theocritus
From his Idyls
Wu Tsao
Some of her poems
Abu Nuwás
Five of his poems
Barnabe Barnes
The 12th Ode
Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford
Two of his poems
Catullus
Some of his verse
Constantin P. Cavafy
Three poems
Jalâl-Ud Din Rûmî
Some love poems
Allen Ginsberg
"Old Love Story"
Muhammad Shams al-din Hâfiz
Two poems
Judah Halevi
Six poems
Straton of Sardis
Three poems
Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd
Treize Ans
James Kirkup
The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name
Muhammad ibn Malik
Facing Mecca
George Gordon, Lord Byron
On This Day I complete my thirty-sixth year
Ruan Ji
In Days of Old
Hilarius (The Englishnan)
To a Boy of Angers - To an English Boy
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