{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-sex-audiobook","title":"The Poetry of Sex (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHumanities greatest pleasure described by humanities greatest writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 03:19mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Walt Whitman, Robert Browning, Aleister Crowley, Emily Dickinson , John Donne, Charles Baudelaire \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSex. It’s a difficult subject. Full of taboos and embarrassment, subject to boundaries and yet hidden from view in our homes. Well, mostly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis very intimate act in modern times has taken on a transparency as it is widely discussed at dinner tables and public forums, and information on every kink and foible is easily obtainable and exchangeable in the 24\/7 online universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut in more classic times writing verse on Sex was both easier and yet more difficult. Easier as the literary world was often thought of as debauched and amoral with scandalous verses passed in manuscript form from person to person, group to group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn example of this would be the profanity of John Wilmot but most others had more delicious ways of expressing the same. Further back and the Greeks, Romans and other empires spoke with desire, frankness and often boastfulness on carnal desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd yet it was also more difficult as outside of a small circle of those in the know how could you possibly avail yourself of these poems, from tender to salacious, to ribald and loving and all manner of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe can’t answer for them but, within this volume, this compendium will speak for itself in many ways from the tender to the earthy and profane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1 - The Poetry of Sex - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - The Pleasures of Sex by Walt Whitman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - Now by Robert Browning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - All Night by Aleister Crowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - Wild Nights Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - The Jewels by Charles Baudelaire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - In the Safety of Your Mouth by Daniel Sheehan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - Anticipation by Amy Lowell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - Ode 44\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby Hafiz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - On Fruition by Sir Charles Sedley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - That Kiss by Daniel Sheehan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - Cruelty and Love by D H Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Voyages by Hart Crane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - Rondels by Aleister Crowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Aubade by Amy Lowell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - In the Bath House by Abu Nuwas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - Half an Hour by C P Cavafy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Sonnet of the Asshole by Paul Verlaine \u0026amp; Aruthur Rimbaud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Poem 16 by Catallus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - Because I Liked You\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby A. E. Housman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - In Despair by C J Cavafy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - Girlfriend by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - Ode to Sappho by Radclyffe Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - Hymen - An Extract by Hilda Doolittle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - The Cretan Dance by Sappho\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - Lifting Belly - An Extract by Gertrude Stein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - Epigram 90 by Martial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - Naughty Nan by Angelina Weld Grimke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - To My Young Lover by Jane Barker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot - Earl of Rochester\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - The Second Rapture by Thomas Carew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - Song For a Girl from Love Triumphant by John Dryden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - Romance by George Orwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - The Imperfect Enjoyment by John Wilmot - Earl of Rochester\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - Signior Dildo by Lord John Wilmot - Earl of Rochester\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - Ode Book 1 . 23 by Horace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - Oh Blush Not So by John Keats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - How Shall I Woo Thee by Paul Laurence Dunbar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - Come My Beloved by Muhammad Din Tilai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - The Flea by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e52 - Sonnet 153 - Cupid Laid By His Brand and Fell Asleep by William Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e53 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e54 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e55 - The Way That Lovers Use by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e56 - No Platonic Love by William Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e57 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e58 - A Devout Lover by Thomas Randolph\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e59 - Did Not by Thomas Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e60 - When My Love Did What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e61 - Sonnet 18 - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e62 - Importune Me No More (When I Was Fair and Young) by Queen Elizabeth I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e63 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e64 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e65 - Doing a Filthy Pleasure by Gaius Petronius\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e66 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e67 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e68 - Necrophilia by Aleister Crowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e69 - The Rapture Poem by Arthur Symons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e70 - She Lay All Naked in Her Bed - Anonymous\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e71 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e72 - The Vine by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e73 - The Balcony by Charles Baudelaire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e74 - Terminus by Edith Wharton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e75 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e76 - Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e77 - The Fired Pot by Anna Wickham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e78 - The Reeve's Tale - An Extract by Geoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e79 - Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regrno Cynarae by Ernest Christopher Dowson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e80 - Song of Solomon 7 from the Bible – King David’s Version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e81 - Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e82 - Sea Poppies by Hilda\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eDoolittle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e83 - Come Slowly - Eden! by Emily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e84 - Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e85 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e86 - One Girl by Sappho\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e87 - Figs by D H Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e88 - Cherry-Ripe by Thomas Campion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e89 - 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