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 thighsAnd glittering eyelids of my soul’s desire.’
- Love and Sleep, Algernon Charles Swinburne2. ‘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 Kaminsky3. ‘Once in civics class, he touched myblouse like it was a page he wantedto turn. For a second, I went trans-parent, lightheaded: a whiff of helium or ether, a sheet of tracingpaper or a tea leaf; slight as theexhalation it takes to say my name.’ - Christine, Amy Grestler4. ‘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 Williams5. ‘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 Herrick6. ‘Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below.’ - To His Mistress Going To Bed, John Donne7. ‘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 hellbe the only thing that makes us sweat.When the apocalypse comes,so will we.’
- When The Apocalypse Comes, Sierra DeMulder8. ‘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 Wilcox9. ‘Straddling my legs a little I inserted his divinePerson 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. Auden10. ‘My sweetheart has the hungriest lips, They seek and press unsparingly;
They probe until she almost slipsAmong her kisses into me.’ - Almost, Louis Untermeyer11. ‘Your breasts, your knees and feet! I feel that weAre a bonfire of oneness, me flame flung leaping around youYou the core of the fire, crept into me.’- Wedlock, D.H. Lawrence12. ‘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 Anderson13. ‘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 AikenGIFs: Giphy, Tumblr