Compilation of Erotic Poetry Books Published in Last Century | 221 Books On Erotic Love (1920-2019)
A compilation of 221 erotic poetry books published between 1946-2015. It took a lot of effort to put this list up. If you find a book or title is missing, please comment. If you liked this compilation and found it helpful, please leave me your thoughts in the comments below. Above all, enjoy.
| Title | Author | Year of Publication |
| Erotic Love Poems: Poems of Diverse Amatory Moods | Citadel Press | 1946 |
| Sodom Or the Quintessence of Debauchery | John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | 1957 |
| Erotic Poetry: The Lyrics, Ballads, Idyls, and Epics of Love: Classical to Contemporary | William Cole | 1963 |
| The Anthology of Restoration Erotic Poetry | Ed Cray | 1965 |
| A Gold Orchid: Love Poems of Tzu Yeh | Tzu Yeh | 1972 |
| Erotica | Donna Ippolito | 1975 |
| Little Birds: Erotica | Anais Nin | 1979, 2004 |
| The Poetica Erotica of R. P. Dickey | R.P Dickey | 1979 |
| Erotica | Teresa Carmen Freda | 1980 |
| Amorotica: New Erotic Poetry | Elliott Fried | 1981 |
| Touching Fire: Lesbian Erotica | Feminist Writers’ Guild | 1981 |
| Scotch Passion: Anthology of Scottish Erotic Poetry | Alexander Scott | 1982 |
| The Erotic Poems | Publio Ovidio Nason | 1982 |
| The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse | Stephen Coote | 1983 |
| Passionate Journey: Poems and Drawings in the Erotic Mood | Steve Kowit | 1984 |
| Jousts of Aphrodite: Erotic Verse Translated from the Original Greek | Michael Kelly | 1986 |
| Dreams of the Women who Loved Sex | Tee A. Corinne | 1987 |
| The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi | Jane Hershfield (translator) | 1988 |
| Lifting Belly | Gertrude Stein | 1989 |
| The Long Embrace: Twentieth Century Irish Love Poems | Frank Ormsby | 1989 |
| The Fragrant Flower: Classic Chinese Erotica in Art and Poetry | Hua Ying Jin Zhen | 1990 |
| Women-Men: The Erotic Poetry of Paul Verlaine | William Packard | 1991 |
| Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid | Peter Bing | 1991 |
| Erotique Noire | Miriam Decosta-Willis | 1992 |
| Quicksand: African American Lesbian Erotic Poetry | Folisade | 1992 |
| Eros English’d: Classical Erotic Poetry in Translation | Charles Tomlinson | 1992 |
| Collected Poems | Constantine Cavafy | 1992 |
| Cold Moon: The Erotic Haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock | Gabriel Rosenstock | 1993 |
| Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda | 1993 |
| Black Sugar: Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Love Poems | Jeremy Reed | 1993 |
| The Body of Love | Tee Corinne | 1994 |
| Japanese Art of Love | Reed | 1994 |
| Throb: Selected Erotic Poetry and Prose | Stephen Peters | 1994 |
| Erotic Poems | Peter Washington (editor) | 1994 |
| Evohe: Erotic Poems | Cristina Peri Rossi | 1994 |
| Erotic Poetry and Prose | Kendrell Thomas | 1994 |
| Amorous Rites: Elizabethan Erotic Verse | Sandra Clark (editor) | 1995 |
| Tangled Sheets: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Lust | Dionne A. Falconer | 1995 |
| Badboy Book of Erotic Poetry | David Laurents | 1995 |
| The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing | Sam Hamill | 1995 |
| Erotic Verse | Christopher Hurford | 1995 |
| Eros in Boytown: Contemporary Gay Poems about Sex | Michael Lassell | 1996 |
| My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems | Leslea Newman | 1996 |
| Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse | Gavin Dillard | 1997 |
| Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth | Kenneth Rexroth | 1997 |
| Diesel Fuel: Passionate Poetry | Pat Califia | 1997 |
| Seven Hundred Kisses: A Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing | Lily Pond | 1997 |
| The Ecstatic Moment: The Best of Libido | Marianna Beck | 1997 |
| Full Frontal Poetry | Individual Artists of Oklahoma | 1997 |
| Sor Juana’s Love Poems | Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | 1997 |
| The Essential Rumi | Rumi | 1997 |
| Bottom Lines: Poems of Warmth and Impact | Andrew Swinburne | 1998 |
| Enjoy: Erotic Poetry | Shantele Tait | 1998 |
| Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings | Reginald Martin | 1999 |
| Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry | Dafydd Johnston | 1999 |
| The Priapus Poems: Erotic Epigrams from Ancient Rome | Richard W. Hooper | 1999 |
| Love Poems | Anne Sexton | 1999 |
| Wet Flowers: Poems | Colin Leslie Dean | 1999 |
| Blood, Love, and Boomerangs | Catherine Jenkins | 1999 |
| An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry | Louis Untermeyer | 2000 |
| Seduction in the First Degree: A Collection of Erotic Poetry | Lisa Marie Canfield | 2000 |
| The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old India | Andrew Schelling | 2001 |
| The Things Your Man Won’t Say and Do (But Should): Poems of Love and Eroticism | Derek A. Brown, Sr. | 2001 |
| Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India | Martha Ann Selby | 2001 |
| Eros Pinoy: An Anthology of Contemporary Erotica in Philippine Art and Poetry | Virgilio Aviado | 2001 |
| The Lover’s Companion: Art and Poetry of Desire | Charles Sullivan | 2002 |
| Sensual Love Poems | Kathleen Blease | 2002 |
| Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West | Daniel Ladinsky | 2002 |
| Gay Erotic Poetry | Vincent James Spoto | 2002 |
| If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Sappho | 2003 |
| Pleased to See Me: 69 Very Sexy Poems | Neil Astley | 2003 |
| Delightful Erotic Poetry | John Solomon | 2003 |
| Punany the Hip Hop Psalms III | The Onliners | 2003 |
| Love Poems from the Japanese | Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill | 2003 |
| A Bite out of the Rainbow | Bob Birch | 2003 |
| PerSOULnalities: Poems for Every Kind of Man | Heather Covington | 2003 |
| Provocative Poetry and Prose: Portraits of Black Love | Sardonyx Jade | 2003 |
| Erotic Love Poems from India | Amaru | 2004 |
| Sweet Erotic Poetry | John Solomon | 2004 |
| Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Dalai Lama | Paul D. Williams | 2004 |
| Mental Sex: Raw Poetry | Jonathan Belvin | 2004 |
| The Art of Love | Ovid | 2004 |
| Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome | Stephen Bertman | 2005 |
| Sugar: Love Poems | Canto | 2005 |
| Velvet Heat: Erotic Poetry for the Carnal Mind | Scott McMorrow | 2005 |
| Erotic Poetry from My Lips | Anne Tyson | 2005 |
| Exposed | Kelly Raine | 2005 |
| The Right Words | Gwen Masters | 2005 |
| Foreplay | Jesse Sharpe | 2005 |
| The Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood | Steve Kowit | 2006 |
| Velvet Avalanche:Â A Collection of Erotic Poetry | Donna Michelle Hill | 2006 |
| Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu | Lisa Rodensky | 2006 |
| The Good Parts: Erotic Poetry for Women | Valentine King | 2006 |
| Sweet Son of Pan | Trebor Healey | 2006 |
| Mother Goddess: Poem | Colin Leslie Dean | 2007 |
| 100 Love Sonnets | Pablo Neruda | 2007 |
| Chocolate Kisses | Miriam Jacobs | 2007 |
| Chinese Erotic Poems | Tony Barnstone, Ping Chou | 2007 |
| Innercourse: Christian Erotic Poetry | Jonathan Varsell Smith | 2007 |
| The Body as Temple: Erotica from Telugu | Sistla Srinivas | 2007 |
| Dirty Thoughts: Erotic Poetry | Crystal Williams | 2007 |
| Confessions of the Soul | Raxon Phoenix | 2007 |
| The Darker Side of Pleasure | Eden Bradley | 2007 |
| Erotiku: Erotic Haiku for the Sensual Soul | Lisa Marie Darlington | 2008 |
| The Love Poems | Ovid | 2008 |
| The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present | David Lehman | 2008 |
| Sexual Freedom: Urban Erotic Poetry | Alphonso Taylor | 2008 |
| Taste My Soul | Monica Marie Jones | 2008 |
| Sex Inspires My Best Poetry: The Urban Erotic Poetry of Lady K. | Lady K. | 2008 |
| The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time | Leslie Pockell | 2008 |
| Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love | Wendy Maltz | 2009 |
| Intimate Kisses | Wendy Maltz | 2009 |
| Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho | Sappho and Carol Ann Duffy | 2009 |
| Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry | Frank M. Chipasula | 2009 |
| Amorous Whispers | Rosie Fielding | 2009 |
| Rumi: The Book of Love | Coleman Barks | 2009 |
| Carnal Diaries of Sex, Love, and Hate: Erotic Poetry and Adult Chronicles | Tamika Taylor | 2009 |
| Syn: The Complete Erotic Poetry Collection | Mr. Hollister | 2009 |
| Candy: A Collection to Satisfy your Sweetest Cravings | Dale Winslow | 2009 |
| Sexy Thoughts of Lust, Love, and Admiration | Hollywood James, Darla Dark | 2009 |
| The Sinful Path to Heaven: Autobiographical Erotic Poetry | Jessica Vaughn | 2010 |
| Erotic Poems | EE Cummings | 2010 |
| The Songs of Bilitis | Pierre Louys | 2010 |
| Erotic Poetry Collection | Robert Herrick | 2010 |
| 100 Erotic Sonnets from the Hiligaynon | Peter Solis Nery | 2010 |
| Scorpio Rising: A Poetic Taste of Erotica and Lesbian Sex | Nikki Lee | 2010 |
| Sensuous Dragon | Deep Rivers | 2010 |
| Intimate Conversations: Erotica | Tracy Williams | 2010 |
| Erotic Poetry | Elaine Shuel | 2010 |
| To Woman, from Man: Love Poems | Jarrell Hayes | 2011 |
| Ten Dirty Poems | C.J. Rackham | 2011 |
| Hopeless Romantic Fever: Erotic Poetry | Keisha D. Helm | 2011 |
| Damn | Jason O’ Neal Williams | 2011 |
| Sex God Soul: Love and Erotic Poetry | Petra M. Jansen | 2011 |
| Eroticism: A Collection of Poetry | Javon Baker | 2011 |
| A Book of Slightly Erotic Poetry: Â A Collection of Poems | Don Peery | 2011 |
| Erotic Embrace II | Karen Stepherson | 2011 |
| Head’s Up | Terika Mcquinn | 2012 |
| Sugar Dish: Mouth Watering Erotic Poetry | Lotus Falcon | 2012 |
| Poetica Erotica | Poetica Erotica | 2012 |
| Hypnopoetics: Modern Love Poems and Hypnotic Inductions | Phil Bilitz | 2012 |
| First Breath | Robin G. White | 2012 |
| Circling Round Eros +2 | Arlene Corwin | 2012 |
| The Gamahucher Press Anthology of Oriental Erotic Poetry | Colin Leslie Dean | 2012 |
| Part of Me, You Are! And Other Love Poems | Jhena Plourde | 2012 |
| Kakunyag: 100 Erotic Poems in the Hiligaynon | Peter Solis Nery | 2012 |
| Put simply just love: Verses of all aspects of love | Astrid Brown | 2012 |
| Romantic Poetry: 150 Poems for Love and Romance | Emily Browning | 2012 |
| Soul’s Voice: Inspirational, love, sensual, and erotic poetry | Astrid Brown | 2012 |
| Pain of Love: Erotic Poems | I.G. Frederick | 2012 |
| Mental Orgasm | Ramon Terry | 2012 |
| The Book of Real and Imaginary Girlfriends | Moctezuma Johnson | 2012 |
| Erotic Fantasies: A Steamy Collection of Sensual Poetry | Felicia Easley | 2012 |
| The Seductive Poetic Thoughts of Miss Bella Buttafly | Miss Bella Buttafly | 2012 |
| Bed of Crimson Joy: Poems | Joan Lauri Poole | 2012 |
| Erotic Poetry: Explicit Thoughts from Jersey City’s Finest | Teasa Williams | 2012 |
| Dancing Between Lies | Leslie Huron | 2012 |
| The Red Lipstick Diaries | Janet Dawson | 2012 |
| The Eleventh Hour | Jasmyn Rose | 2013 |
| The G-Spot Chronicles | Mona Bode | 2013 |
| Her Black Body I Treasure | Quinton Veal | 2013 |
| Something Sensual | L. Ward | 2013 |
| Red Shoes and Sex: An Erotic Journey | Blaqrayn Publishing Family | 2013 |
| Sexy Thoughts and Delicious Nibbles | The Naked Nurse | 2013 |
| Sister Ignition 4 | Erotic Poetry | 2013 |
| Gay Erotic Poems: Hot Rhyming Sex | L.M. Dawson | 2013 |
| Lusty Romantic Nights: A Collection of Erotic Poetry | Goddess Faye | 2013 |
| Hot Summer Nights 2013: A Collection of Erotic Poetry | The Writers | 2013 |
| Persian Songs | Colin Leslie Dean | 2013 |
| Classical Love Poetry | Jonathan Williams | 2013 |
| Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus | Shari Lowin | 2013 |
| 28 Verses from the Amarusataka of Amaru | Colin Leslie Dean | 2013 |
| The Poetic Art of Seduction: The Erotic Poetry Collection Volume 1-3 | Clarissa O. Clemens | 2013 |
| Erotica: The Poetry of Love | Arthur C. Kennedy | 2013 |
| Sausalito Sunrise: Poems for Lesbians and Other Lovers | Mary Ann Shank | 2013 |
| Bedroom Bliss: Erotic Poetry | Terika McQuinn | 2013 |
| On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani | Lena Jayyusi | 2013 |
| Love Is a Lion’s Tooth and Other Poems of Desire | Jane Gilgun | 2013 |
| 15 Shady Poems and a Love Sonnet | Robert Hoffman | 2013 |
| Tantalising Touch: Erotic Modern Poems | Jean Pierre Albertson | 2013 |
| Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Reader | Paul Allen Miller | 2013 |
| Love and Fuck Poems | Koraly Dimitriadis | 2013 |
| Love in the Vernacular: Erotic Love Poetry | Terry Dammery | 2013 |
| The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing | Sam Hamill | 2013 |
| Hunger-Desire | Richard L. Calleros | 2013 |
| The Velvet Rope: Book 1 | Katie Kamara | 2013 |
| Naked Reflections: Shamelessly Sensual Poetry | Stacey Joy | 2013 |
| Collisions | M.L Kayser | 2013 |
| Bring Me the Sexy!: Erotic Poetry and Prose | Fred Robel | 2013 |
| Absence: Erotic Poetry—Extruded through Lust | P.J. Bayliss | 2014 |
| Sexual Tendencies: An Erotic Anthology | Jennifer Sage | 2014 |
| Bombshells and Boi’s: Queer Poetry and Pin Up | Miss Kitty | 2014 |
| Poetry: Poems of Pleasure | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 2014 |
| Meld: Erotic Poetry on Matters Every Lady Desires | Jamel Burrell-Karriem | 2014 |
| Love Pillar 3: Pillar 3, Volume 3, the Poetry Trilogy | Aaron La Lux | 2014 |
| Tales of Pure Carnality | Mattie Kingori | 2014 |
| The Fetish of Toys: Erotic Poetry | Amelia Hickman | 2014 |
| Sometime Poet: The Erotic Edge Poetry | Ethan Radcliff | 2014 |
| Gilded Cage: Words of Pleasure, Pain, Madness, and Lust | Alisa Anderson | 2014 |
| Strip: Erotic Poetry | Amelia Hickman | 2014 |
| Write on Me: A compilation of erotic poetry and love letters | Shumon Carlisle and Nina Clark | 2014 |
| Slippery Friction: Poems of Love, Lust, and Passion | Charles Ward | 2014 |
| Lust, Love, Dreams, and Heartache:Â A book of romantic and erotic poetry | A.J. Walters | 2014 |
| Erotic and Romantic Poetry 2 | Lyrical Poet and Carl Dunford | 2014 |
| Red Smoke: Love Poems from a Dysfunctional Heart | Mark Anthony Cotterman | 2014 |
| Ovid’s Banquet of Sense | George Chapman | 2014 |
| A Book of Sensual and Erotic Poetry | D.D | 2014 |
| Love Beyond Boundries: A Collection of Erotic Poetry | Cara Downey | 2014 |
| 25 Sexy Poems | Santosh Kalwar | 2014 |
| Inside My Dirty Mind: A Short Collection of Sexy and Erotic Poetry | Jackie McMahon | 2014 |
| Make Love to Me: A Selection of Seductive Poetry | Natasha Celeste | 2014 |
| Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual and Erotic Longing | Andrew Schelling | 2014 |
| My Love Expressions: To My Lover | Lynn Christopher | 2014 |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 2014 |
| Aural Sex: Naughty Notes for Lovers | Jennifer Lieberman | 2014 |
| The Birds, the Bees, and the Boudoir | Rheadrea Monet | 2014 |
| Poetry from the Bedroom Mirror: A Collection of Reflections        | Chris Linville and Lisa Masters | 2015 |
| What Do You Like?: Nine Erotic Poems | Paul Whybrow | 2015 |
| Yearnings: Poems of Love and Desire | Abha Iyengar | 2015 |
| Love Haiku: Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion, and Romance | Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi | 2015 |
| Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems | Salil Jha | 2015 |
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If you have read some of these books, please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Wow, thanks, this is so very helpful.
You are welcome, Anita! Enjoy!
You are spending so much of time in research work .Awesome and really helpful for other writer’s.
Thank you, Dennis! Glad you are finding this list helpful. I enjoy researching and writing.
I received and read your book. Wow! Just wow! As I anticipated, my favorite part was of the book was Erotic Love. You really have a flare for romantic poems. I love the subtlety of the way you handled the topic of eros. It was neither thrown in the readers face in an unoriginal way, and neither was it hidden. When I first read excerpts from your book on this website under the love section, I thought that was as good as it got. I didn’t think it was likely that a person could write love poems consistently so well, but you have definitely exceeded my expectations. I tip my hat to you, fellow poet, you’ve got the goddess of love on your favor! ere were other poems I liked too, and I wrote all the details in my review of your book on Amazon.com and Goodreads.com. It’s going to be hard to move on to the next book after this. I finished reading your book in a few hours ago today, but the love section is still stuck in my mind. If there are any other hopeless romantics out there, this is the book for you!
Wow! Thanks Sam for such a long and kind comment. You made my day. I am glad to hear that you really enjoyed the book. I have a second book coming out this October, stay tuned. In the mean time, please enjoy the blog posts. Best!
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