There is no better way to express your emotions than with the written world. While we often resort to prose, there is something super hot about poetry as well. Here are 13 quotes from erotic poems that will leave you craving for your partner’s touch! 1. ‘The quivering flanks, hair smelling of the south, The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs And glittering eyelids of my soul’s desire.’ - Love and Sleep, Algernon Charles Swinburne 2. ‘I kissed the back of her neck, an elbow, this woman whose forgetting is a plot against forgetting, naked in her galoshes she waltzed.’ - American Tourist, Ilya Kaminsky 3. ‘Once in civics class, he touched my blouse like it was a page he wanted to turn. For a second, I went trans- parent, lightheaded: a whiff of helium or ether, a sheet of tracing paper or a tea leaf; slight as the exhalation it takes to say my name.’ - Christine, Amy Grestler 4. ‘And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom - feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself, like a winter wind.’ - Arrival, William Carlos Williams 5. ‘Methought her long small legs and thighs I with my tendrils did surprise; Her belly, buttocks, and her waist By my soft nervelets were embraced.’ - The Vine, Robert Herrick 6. ‘Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below.’ - To His Mistress Going To Bed, John Donne 7. ‘When the apocalypse does come, I will rebuild our city with my tongue. I will suck this world’s ashes from your fingers. I will refuse to let the fires of this hell be the only thing that makes us sweat. When the apocalypse comes, so will we.’ - When The Apocalypse Comes, Sierra DeMulder 8. ‘I love your lips when they’re wet with wine And red with a wild desire; I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire. I love your arms when the warm white flesh Touches mine in a fond embrace; I love your hair when the strands enmesh Your kisses against my face.’ - I Love You, Ella Wheeler Wilcox 9. ‘Straddling my legs a little I inserted his divine Person between and closed on it tight as I could. The upright warmth of his belly lay all along mine. Nude, glued together for a minute, we stood.’ - The Platonic Blow, W.H. Auden 10. ‘My sweetheart has the hungriest lips, They seek and press unsparingly; They probe until she almost slips Among her kisses into me.’ - Almost, Louis Untermeyer 11. ‘Your breasts, your knees and feet! I feel that we Are a bonfire of oneness, me flame flung leaping around you You the core of the fire, crept into me.’ - Wedlock, D.H. Lawrence 12. ‘Tasting your neck so sweet, so soft, And slowly lowering my kiss. Over pert nipples, across your navel, And finally into pure bliss.’ - More!, Michael Anderson 13. ‘And tear at your strange flesh with crazy fingers, And drink with mouth gone mad your eyes’ wild wine, And cleave to you, body with breathless body, Till bestial were exalted to divine…’ - Discordants, Conrad Aiken GIFs: Giphy, Tumblr