Famous Sensuality Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Sensuality poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sensuality poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sensuality poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

by Pythagoras
1. First worship the Immortal Gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law.
2. Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light.
3. Honour likewise the Terrestrial Daemons by rendering them the worship lawfully due to them.
4. Honour likewise your parents, and those most nearly related to you.
5. Of all the rest of mankind, make him...Read more of this...

The Deepest Sensuality

by D. H. Lawrence
 The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice....Read more of this...

Quarantine

by Eavan Boland
 In the worst hour of the worst season
 of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with his wife.
He was walking-they were both walking-north.

She was sick with famine fever and could not keep up.
 He lifted her and put her on his back.
He walked like that west and north.
Until at nightfall under freezing...Read more of this...

Coole Park 1929

by William Butler Yeats
 I meditate upon a swallow's flight,
Upon a aged woman and her house,
A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night
Although that western cloud is luminous,
Great works constructed there in nature's spite
For scholars and for poets after us,
Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,
A dance-like glory that those walls begot.

There Hyde before he had beaten into prose
That noble blade the Muses buckled...Read more of this...

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