Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that most raw and yet most beautiful of human instincts - erotic love. This anthology includes verse by Herrick, Marlowe, Jonson, Byron, Verliane, Whitman, Yeats, Cummings, and, from our own time, John Betjeman. All aspects of erotic love are found in these poems - from the witty and bawdy to the sensuous and tender.