This poem is a part of the Nizami's Khamsa. Haft Peykar ( Persian: هفت پیکر) also known as Bahramnameh ( بهرامنامه, The Book of Bahram) is a romantic epic by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi written in 1197. Some later Latin authors such as Joannes Secundus also wrote erotic verse. Notable Roman erotic poets included Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Martial and Juvenal, and the anonymous Priapeia.
Erotic poems continued to be written in Hellenistic and Roman times by writers like Automedon ( The Professional and Demetrius the Fortunate), Philodemus ( Charito) and Marcus Argentarius. The poet Archilochus wrote numerous satirical poems filled with obscene and erotic imagery. The Greek poets Straton of Sardis and Sappho of Lesbos both wrote erotic lyric poems. Many erotic poems have survived from ancient Greece and Rome. In the Hebrew Bible, the Song of Songs, found in the last section of the Tanakh, celebrates sexual love, giving 'the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy'.
In ancient Sumer, a whole cycle of poems revolved around the erotic lovemaking between the goddess Inanna and her consort Dumuzid the Shepherd. The oldest located love poem is Istanbul 2461, an erotic monologue written by a female speaker directed to king Shu-Sin. Sappho, the tenth Muse, fresco from Pompeii Early periods
