What are some "high brow" poems about sex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpT6ycHoMA

Based John Donne

The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
Thou know’st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pampered swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and marriage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that, self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?
Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:
Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,
Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

>>8442476
>What are some "high brow" poems about sex?

Sappho of Lesbos. Most of her writing is literally about being in love and fucking women.

Catullus

I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,
bottom Aurelius and catamite Furius,
you who think, because my poems
are sensitive, that I have no shame.
For it's proper for a devoted poet to be moral
himself, [but] in no way is it necessary for his poems.
In point of fact, these have wit and charm,
if they are sensitive and a little shameless,
and can arouse an itch,
and I don't mean in boys, but in those hairy old men
who can't get it up.
Because you've read my countless kisses,
you think less of me as a man?
I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

WHEN U WID A GYAL DEM WHO THINK SHE PENG BUT SWEAR DOWN CUZZIN SHES BARE DUTTY AND A SKET WHO LOOK LIKE SHE GOT ALL HER SWAG AT THE MEDICINE AISLE IN TESCOS LMAOXD XD XD ;) ;) ;)

>>8442476
anything by pablo neruda

>>8442538
>all that stuffing

>>8442476

That Shakespeare one about Venus and Adonis.

>>8442538

Man that's not even his best one. I do feel kinda bad that this brilliant poet, who wrote about everything from homecoming to castration to politics to death to marriage, is more or less only known to most people now for his obscenity. All the same:

Catullus 56:

A most ridiculous and humorous thing, Cato,
worthy of your ears and your laughter!
If you love your Catullus, please do laugh:
it is a ridiculous thing and most humorous.
I just now caught a little boy plowing a little girl.
By Venus, I slew that boy
with my rigid spear.

15

I commend myself and my lover to you,
Aurelius. I ask for one modest favor:
that, if you have gotten any ideas,
as you are after a chaste and virgin boy,
you keep him for me modestly,
not from the people - we don't at all fear them,
who go about in the street
occupied about their business -
but I fear you and your cock,
dire to good boys and bad ones.
Move your cock where you like, as you like,
as much as you like, where there's something outside:
I make an exception of this boy alone, modestly, as I think.
But if your wicked mind and insane passion
drive you into such a crime, wretch,
that you wound us by trickery -
woe to you, a miserable fate!
With your feet bound, and your gate open,
you shall be run through with molluscs and radishes.

>>8442577

Also not extremely literal translations, "pro telo rigida mea" does not mean "with my rigid spear", etc.

>>8442476
>no Song of Solomon
God gravy /lit/
Of course it's only incidentally about sex

Catullus 99:

I stole from you as you played, sweet Juventius,
a kiss sweeter than sweet ambrosia.
But I did not get it unpunished: for over an hour
I remember I was fixed to the cross,
as I tried to excuse myself, nor was I able by any cries
to soften your savagery at all.
For as soon as it was done, you dried your
moist lips with your soft fingers,
lest any contagion remained from my mouth,
as if it was the filthy slobber of a pissy whore.
And you did not hesitate to hand me over to your dire Love
and torture me in every way,
so that that little kiss was changed for me
from sweet ambrosia to bitterest hellebore.
Since you propose such a punishment for love,
I will never steal kisses from you again.

>>8442496
Donne was a fucking pervert man

33

O most excellent of the thieves of the baths,
father Vibennius, and your faggot son,
(for the father's hand is most foul [sc. from thieving],
and his son's asshole is most voracious),
why not go into exile, go to hell,
since the father's thefts
are known to the people, and you, son,
can't sell your hairy ass for a penny?

97

By the gods, I don't think it matters at all
whether I smell the mouth or asshole of Aemilius.
The one is no cleaner, the other no more filthy;
indeed, the asshole is better and cleaner:
for it has no teeth. The mouth has teeth a yard long,
and the gums of an old wagon-box,
a grin like the split cunt of a mule
pissing in the heat.
He fucks lots of girls and makes himself out to be handsome,
and is not handed over to the ass and the mill? [bad work for slaves]
And if any girl touches him, can we not think she
licks the asshole of a sick hangman?

https://sites.google.com/site/poetryandtranslations/various/lilith-v-nabokov

This one is my all time favorite.

>>8442577
I got news for you: Venus & Adonis is about Jesus' love, sermon on the mount and shit. It starts out like a raunchy Greek sexfest but progress to themes of Christian love.

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I'll throw in a reminder here that sex is worse than meaningless outside of the context of marriage within the Orthodox faith.

I suggest starting with "The Orthodox Way" by Bishop Kallistos Ware

I cut the middle fingernail of the middle
finger
right hand
real short
and I began rubbing along her cunt
as she sat upright in bed
spreading lotion over her arms
face
and breasts
after bathing.
then she lit a cigarette:
"don't let this put you off,"
an smoked and continued to rub
the lotion on.
I continued to rub the cunt.
"You want an apple?" I asked.
"sure, she said, "you got one?"
but I got to her-
she began to twist
then she rolled on her side,
she was getting wet and open
like a flower in the rain.
then she rolled on her stomach
and her most beautiful ass
looked up at me
and I reached under and got the
cunt again.
she reached around and got my
cock, she rolled and twisted,
I mounted
my face falling into the mass
of red hair that overflowed
from her head
and my flattened cock entered
into the miracle.
later we joked about the lotion
and the cigarette and the apple.
then I went out and got some chicken
and shrimp and french fries and buns
and mashed potatoes and gravy and
cole slaw,and we ate.she told me
how good she felt and I told her
how good I felt and we
ate the chicken and the shrimp and the
french fries and the buns and the
mashed potatoes and the gravy and
the cole slaw too.