Homosexual Verse, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Poets) [Mass Market Paperback]

Stephen Coote (Editor)

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Series: Penguin Poets | Publication Date: January 1, 1995

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David's Lament For Jonathan by Peter Abelard
After The Blitz, 1941 by Joe Randolph Ackerley
Epigram by Adaios
Epigram by Alcaeus Of Mytilene
Lament For The Cuckoo by Alcuin
Unto The Beach by Angelo Ambrogini
A Ever-fixed Mark by Kingsley Amis
The Beach Homos by Forrest Anderson
Brother Astolfo Sated Appetite by Pietro Aretino
I Took Leave Of My Beloved One Evening: How I Wish by At Taliq
A Portrait Of Henri Iii by Theodore Agrippa D' Aubigne
Uncle Henry by Wystan Hugh Auden
Epigram by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Epigram by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Epigram by Automedon
Chorus Of Scyrian Maidens by Philip Bainbrigge
Dykes In The Garden by Sharon Barba
Explanation by William Barber
Eric by John Barford
Serve Her Right by John Barford
Sundered by John Barford
Toleration by John Barford
'whom Jesus Loved' by John Barford
Sonnet: 1 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 10 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 11 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 12 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 14 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 17 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 19 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 20 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 4 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 6 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 7 by Richard Barnfield
Sonnet: 8 by Richard Barnfield
Women Damned by Charles Baudelaire
Friendship by Kathleen Beauchamp
Epitaph On Pegasus, A Limping Gay by Antonio Beccadelli
To Corydon by Antonio Beccadelli
Scarcely Believe Things Shameful To Utter Which Yet I Shall Speak Of by Bernard Of Cluny
A Valentine by Matilda Barbara Betham-edwards
Lady Maria, In Your Merit And Distinction by Bieiris De Romans
Another by Ellen Marie Bissert
The Most Beautiful Woman At My Highschool Reunion by Ellen Marie Bissert
Six Years by Alice Bloch
Variations On Sappho: 33 by Katherine Harris Bradley
Variations On Sappho: 35 by Katherine Harris Bradley
I Think The New Teacher's A Queer by Perry Brass
Cling To Me by John Le Gay Brereton
At Swindon by Reginald Baliol Brett
Leda And Her Swan by Olga Broumas
'bored'; At A London Music by Horatio Brown
A 'kodak'; Tregantle by Horatio Brown
Dancing The Shout To The True Gospel by Rita Mae Brown
The New Litany by Rita Mae Brown
Sappho's Reply by Rita Mae Brown
The Cornelian by George Gordon Byron
Stanza: 85. An Alpine Storm by George Gordon Byron
To Eddleston by George Gordon Byron
Heraclitus by Callimachus
Love Of Men For Each Other by Edward Carpenter
Through The Long Night In Which I Lie Stars Will Be Shining by Edward Carpenter
Hymeneal: 61 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Hymeneal: 80 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Hymeneal: 81 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Hymeneal: 99 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
I Entrust My All To You, Aurelius by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
I Have Something For You To Laugh At, Cato by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
I'll Have You By The Short And Curly Hair by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
If I Could Go On Kissing Your Honeyed Eyes by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Of All Our Bath-houe Thieves The Cleverest One by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Veranius, My Dear Friend, The Friend Worth by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Young Catullus Is Depressed, Cornificus by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Days Of 1896 by Constantine P. Cavafy
He Asked About The Quality by Constantine P. Cavafy
In Despair by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Mirror In The Front Hall by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Next Table by Constantine P. Cavafy
Their Beginning by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Twenty-fifth Year Of His Life by Constantine P. Cavafy
Two Young Men, 23 T0 24 Years Old by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Window Of The Tobacco Shop by Constantine P. Cavafy
Birds In The Night by Luis Cernuda
The Book Of God's Madness: 3 by Ralph Chubb
Song Of My Soul: 3 by Ralph Chubb
The Sun Spirit by Ralph Chubb
The Times, Sels. by Charles Churchill
To A Sleeping Friend by Jean Cocteau
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Christabel And Geraldine by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Daredevil by Kirby Congdon
To A Friend by James Fennimore, Jr. Cooper
To G.r. by Samuel Ellsworth Cottam
David And Jonathan by Abraham Cowley
The Lesbian Hell by Aleister Crowley
Divina Commedia: Inferno. Canto 15 by Dante Alighieri
Faggots In Ancient Rome by Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Lines 301-349 by Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Satire: 9 by Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Frigid And Sweet Her Parting Face by Emily Dickinson
Her Breast Is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson
Her Sweet Weight On My Heart A Night by Emily Dickinson
The Letter by Emily Dickinson
Now I Knew I Lost Her by Emily Dickinson
Ourselves Were Wed One Summer - Dear by Emily Dickinson
Precious To Me - She Still Shall Be by Emily Dickinson
The Stars Are Old, That Stood For Me by Emily Dickinson
To See Her Is A Picture by Emily Dickinson
I Never Asked For More Than Thou Hast Given by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
The Dead Poet by Alfred Bruce Douglas
Two Loves: To The Sphinx by Alfred Bruce Douglas
Description Of Seduction Of Edward by Michael Drayton
Edward's Lament by Michael Drayton
Gaveston Relates His Downfall by Michael Drayton
Evesong by Maureen Duffy
Sonnet by Maureen Duffy
The Lover by Robert Duncan
The Cherry Boy: 1 by Royston Ellis
The Cherry Boy: 6 by Royston Ellis
Spiv Song by Royston Ellis
The Hammam Name (from A Poem By A Turkish Lady) by James Elroy Flecker
Written On An Island Off The Breton Coast by Venantius Honorius Clemantianus Fortunatus
Song (october 1969) by Kath Fraser
To W.j.m. by G. G.
Ode To Walt Whitman by Federico Garcia Lorca
Murderers Of The Wall by Jean Genet
The Lyre Player by Stefan George
For The Goddess Too Well Known by Elsa Gidlow
Lesbian Play On T.v. by Caroline Gilfillan
Years And Years I Have Loved You by Gabriel Gillett
Maybe Love by Allen Ginsberg
Please Master by Allen Ginsberg
Epigram by Glaukos
To Grosphus by Godfrey The Satirist
The Market Square's Admiring Throngs by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Poet To The Sleeping Saki by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Prithee Leave Me, Craft Hussy by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Long Lines: Youth And Age by Paul Goodman
Making Love, I (11) by Paul Goodman
The Common Woman: 4. Carol, In The Park, Chewing On Straws by Judy Grahn
A History Of Lesbianism by Judy Grahn
Where Her Breasts Come Together by Judy Grahn
Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West by Thomas Gray
Fever by Thomson William Gunn
Modes Of Pleasure (1) by Thomson William Gunn
Forgotten Island: 32 by Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
Rain Journal: London: June 65 by Rafe Lee Harwood
Jupiter And Ganimede by Thomas Heywood
The Iliad: Book 23. The Ghost Of Patroclus by Homer
The Bugler's First Communion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Because I Liked You Better by Alfred Edward Housman
Half-way, For One Commandment Broken by Alfred Edward Housman
The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Men by Alfred Edward Housman
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner With Handcuffs On His Wrist by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 15 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 44 by Alfred Edward Housman
You Know Not How Deep Was The Love Your Eyes Did Kindle by Ibn Al-abbar
On His Queerness by Christopher Isherwood
A Message (written To Oscar Wilde In Prison) by George Burnham Ives
Once by George Burnham Ives
Carmina Amico: 17 by Edward James
Carmina Amico: 19 by Edward James
Lesbian by Paula Jennings
Poem by Steve Jonas
Ragout Fin Du Siecle (with Reference To Certain Cafes) by Erich Kastner
Chicken; After Harold Nourse by Denis Kelly
Gay Boys by James Kirkup
The Love Of Older Men by James Kirkup
The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name by James Kirkup
Abdelfatteh by Edward A. Lacey
Guest by Edward A. Lacey
Meson Brujo by Edward A. Lacey
Ramon by Edward A. Lacey
To S.a. by Thomas Edward Lawrence
Lament Of The Sodomites by George Lestey
A Sunday In Cambridge by Eddie Linden
The Agonizing Memory by Pierre Louis
The Breasts Of Mnasidice by Pierre Louis
The Complaisant Friend by Pierre Louis
Love by Pierre Louis
The Meeting by Pierre Louis
Penumbra by Pierre Louis
Madonna Of The Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell
A Sprig Of Rosemary by Amy Lowell
Thorn Piece by Amy Lowell
My Own Head. Seen In Mirrors. Cleanly Axed by Edward Lucie-smith
Charmides, Sels. by Edmund St. Gascoigne Mackie
Epigram by Marcus Argentarius
Epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: A Riddle by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: Go, Happy Rose by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: New Love by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: On A Slanderer by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: On Bassa by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: On Hedylus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: The Likeness by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Charinus, A Catamite by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Dindymus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Labienus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Lygdus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Papilus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Philaenis by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Phoebus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Epigram: To Polycharmus by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Quarry - Rock; A Reality Poem In The Tradition Of Genet by Paul Mariah
Amorous Leander, Beautiful And Young by Christopher Marlowe
Leander Swims The Hellespont by Christopher Marlowe
Epigram by Meleager
Epigram by Meleager
Epigram by Meleager
Epigram by Meleager
Epigram by Meleager
Epigram (1) by Meleager
Epigram (2) by Meleager
Epigram (2) by Meleager
Epigram (3) by Meleager
Epigram (4) by Meleager
Epigram (5) by Meleager
Epigram (6) by Meleager
Epigram: Diodorus by Meleager
On The Road To The Sea by Charlotte Mew
From Thy Fair Face I Learn, O My Beloved Lord' by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Thou Knowest, Love, I Know That Thou Dost Know by Michelangelo Buonarroti
To Luigi Del Riccio, After The Death Of Cecchino Bracci by Michelangelo Buonarroti
To Tommaso De' Calalieri (1) by Michelangelo Buonarroti
To Tommaso De' Calalieri (2) by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Gay Epiphany by James Mitchell
The Burial In Flanders (h.s.g., Ypres, 1916) by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
A Chaplet Of Southernwood: 3 by John Gambril Nicholson
Behind The Glass Wall by Harold Nourse
Episode by Cassiano Nunes
Homosexuality by Frank O'hara
Some Boys by Charles Ortleb
Antaeus; A Fragment by Wilfred Owen
Sonnet To My Friend, With An Identity Disc by Wilfred Owen
To A Pope by Pier Paolo Pasolini
To Ausonius by Paulinus Of Nola
Epigram by Paulos
Genius by Louis Sanders Perkins
Epigram by Philip Of Thessalonica
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia by Katherine Philips
Lucasia, Rosania, And Orinda Parting At A Fountain by Katherine Philips
Orinda To Lucasia by Katherine Philips
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
The Gilded Boys by Felice Picano
The Heart Has Its Reasons by Felice Picano
Ode On Theoxenos by Pindar
Sonnets To Karl Theodor German: 1 by August Platen
Sonnets To Karl Theodor German: 22 by August Platen
To Bulow: 2 by August Platen
To Liebig: 6 by August Platen
To Liebig: 7 by August Platen
To Rotenham: 3 by August Platen
To Schmidlein: 2 by August Platen
Aster (1) by Plato
Epigram by Plato
Epigram by Plato
Ganymede by William Plomer
The Playboy Of The Demi-world by William Plomer
The Leather Bar by Ralph Pomeroy
A Tardy Epithalamium For E. And N. by Ralph Pomeroy
Imitations Of Horace: Ode Iv, 1 by Alexander Pope
Iphys And Ianthee by Publius Ovidius Naso
Pastoral: 2. Alexis by Publius Vergilius Maro
Sweet Boy, Gentle Boy by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Crucifixion by Von Puttkamer
The End Is Now by Von Puttkamer
Foiled Sleep by Von Puttkamer
Moriturus by Von Puttkamer
The Unfading by Von Puttkamer
Vagabonds by Von Puttkamer
Odes Iv, 10 by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Epigram by Rhianus
Twenty-one Love Poems: 1 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 12 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 16 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
My Mouth Is Often Joined Against His Mouth by Arthur Rimbaud
Sonnet: To The Asshole by Arthur Rimbaud
The Tortured Heart by Arthur Rimbaud
Ballade Of Boys Bathing by Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis M. Rolfe
Laura And Lizzie Asleep by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Epigram by Rufinus
The Fairies Are Dancing All Over The World by Michael Rumaker
Once I Went Through The Lanes, Over The Sharp by Victoria Mary Sackville-west
Be Kind To Me by Sappho
I Have Not One Word From Her by Sappho
It Was You, Atthis, Who Said by Sappho
At Daybreak by Siegfried Sassoon
Elegy Written At The Sea-side .. Addressed To Honoria Sneyd by Anna Seward
Now With A Vestal Lustre Glows The Vale by Anna Seward
Sonnet: 32. To The Departing Spirit Of An Alienated Friend by Anna Seward
Sonnet: 104 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 110 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 144 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 20 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 35 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 36 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 53 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 55 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 57 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 60 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 67 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 87 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 94 by William Shakespeare
Epigram by Skythinos
In The Seraglio by David Rytman Slavitt
Boys And Sport by Solon
How Strangely This Sun Reminds Me Of My Love by Stephen Spender
To T.a.r.h. by Stephen Spender
Among The Coffee Cups And Soup Toureens Walked Beauty by Jack Spicer
Central Park West by Jack Spicer
Too Harsh The Man Who Setting Bounds To Grief by Publius Papinius Statius
Epigram by Statyllius Flaccus
Before The Flowers Of Friendship Faded Faded: 21 by Gertrude Stein
Epigram by Strato
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To Kyris by Strato
Faustine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ithocles: 6. Ithocles Alone On Ida ...: To Him Lysander by John Addington Symonds
Midnight At Baiae; A Dream Fragment Of Imeperial Rome by John Addington Symonds
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 13 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 130 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 27 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 7 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 9 by Alfred Tennyson
Idyll 23. A Scorn'd Shepherd Hangs Himself by Theocritus
Idyll 26. An Advice To A Friend To Be Constant In His Love by Theocritus
To Kurnos by Theognis
Sympathy by Henry David Thoreau
Lines 11-24 by Albius Tibullus
Lines 53-72 by Albius Tibullus
For Three Swift Days by Gennady Trifonov
Danebury by Anonymous
Epigram by Anonymous
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Epitaph For Jean Maillard by Anonymous
Ganymede And Helen by Anonymous
Limerick by Anonymous
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Lost Lines From Chaucer's Prologue To The Canterbury Tales by Anonymous
Love-letter One by Anonymous
Love-letter Two by Anonymous
O Spirit Of Venus Whom I Adore by Anonymous
A Perverse Custom Is To Prefer Boys To Girls by Anonymous
Then, Say, Was I Or Nature In The Wrong by Anonymous
To Bellinus by Anonymous
A Bad Sleeper by Paul Verlaine
Ode: To My Lovers by Paul Verlaine
Pensionnaires by Paul Verlaine
Spring by Paul Verlaine
Thousands And Three by Paul Verlaine
The Pillory by Renee Vivien
Toward Lesbos by Renee Vivien
Words To My Friend by Renee Vivien
Brotherhood by J. J. W.
To His Friend In Absence by Walafrid Strabo
On The Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies by Edmund Waller
Goldenhair by John Waller
The Waning Of Love by Edmund Perry Warren
The Beautiful Swimmer by Walt Whitman
A Glimpse by Walt Whitman
O Tan-faced Prairie-boy by Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night by Walt Whitman
We Two Boys Together Clinging by Walt Whitman
What Is Grass? by Walt Whitman
Life Story by Tennessee Williams
Song (1) by John Wilmot
To Love And Nature All Their Rights Restore by John Wilmot
Christopher Street Liberation Day, June 28, 1970 by Fran Winant
The Beautiful by F. S. Woodley
I Love This Boy, Not For His Beauty Only by F. S. Woodley
To The Lady Eleanor Butler And The Honorable Miss Ponsonby by William Wordsworth
To A Sicilian Boy by Theodore Wratislaw
Double Exposure by Ian Young
Honi Soit Qui May Y Pense by Ian Young
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140585516
• ISBN-13: 978-0140585513
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Gay Anthology EVER!, April 24, 1997

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This review is from: Homosexual Verse, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Poets) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is simply the best book of its kind. It provides definite proof, ACTUAL POEMS! You'll be astonished by these very famous poets who, previously unknown to you, wrote homosexual verse--at times, very explicitly homosexual verse, at that. Enjoy

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Let's just say it's the ONLY one so far that's universal in scope (but see my caveat at amazon.co.uk). A Day for a Lay's international coverage is patchy in the extreme, capricious even, and anyway it only covers men. Time to be all-embracing, I feel; in the meantime we'll just have to make do (!) with David Lehman's glorious 'best erotic' anthology, which is all-American but in every possible combination.