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A Great Wagon

By Rumi
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In this well-known poem, Rumi describes how we're all connected with one another.

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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.

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Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirsfield (translator)
1990
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death.

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C. P. Cavafy, Edmund Keeley (translator), Philip Sherrard (translator), George Savidis (editor)
1992
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All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women

Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers’ notions of what defines erotic poetry.

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Enid Shomer (editor)
2018
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