Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentLillian Faderman Lesbian and bisexual literature over the past four centuries, tracing the evolution of the genre from romantic friendship, through the exotic and evil, to the explicitly sexual. An example of exotic and evil is provided by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. By the author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. |
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... HAIR Your strange hair , cold light , Has pale glows and blond dullness ; Your gaze has the blue of ether and waves ; Your gown has the chill of the breeze and the woods . I burn the whiteness of your fingers with kisses . The night air ...
... HAIR Your strange hair , cold light , Has pale glows and blond dullness ; Your gaze has the blue of ether and waves ; Your gown has the chill of the breeze and the woods . I burn the whiteness of your fingers with kisses . The night air ...
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... hair ! Golden hair and darkling eye , Where the golden sorrows ever lie , Velvet prisoners they are , and wild ; One , a woman weeping for a child , ( Her own childhood lost among the deeps , ) One , a child that for a woman weeps , One ...
... hair ! Golden hair and darkling eye , Where the golden sorrows ever lie , Velvet prisoners they are , and wild ; One , a woman weeping for a child , ( Her own childhood lost among the deeps , ) One , a child that for a woman weeps , One ...
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... hair , climb in to me , love hovers here like a mother's wish . You might have been , though you're not my mother . You let loose like hair , like static her stilled wish , relentless in me and constant as tropical growth . Every hair ...
... hair , climb in to me , love hovers here like a mother's wish . You might have been , though you're not my mother . You let loose like hair , like static her stilled wish , relentless in me and constant as tropical growth . Every hair ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
Copyright | |
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