LGBTQ poetry

thumb|upright=1.5|The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus The Eclogues (; , ), also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.

expansive Walt Whitman poetry collection

1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement

right|thumb|350px|The triumph of Dionysus, depicted on a 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus. Dionysus rides in a chariot drawn by panthers; his procession includes elephants and other exotic animals. The Dionysiaca (, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity at 20,426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

the only surviving poem by Sappho which is known to be complete

twentieth of 154 by William Shakespeare

collection of French erotic lesbian poetry in the manner of Sappho by Pierre Louÿs, 1894.

poetry collection by Gaius Valerius Catullus

ancient song in an unknown language of southern China

1998 verse novel by Anne Carson

poem written by Sappho

graffiti poem found at Pompeii