Don Leon

Don Leon is an anonymous 19th-century poem that claims to be by Lord Byron, and which celebrates homosexual love and makes a plea for tolerance. Quotes I burn to press thee, but I fear to try,Lest like an incubus my weight should lie;Lest, from the close encounter we should doomThy quickening fœtus to an early tomb.Thy size repels me, whilst thy charms invite;Then, say, how celebrate the marriage rite?Learn'd Galen, Celsus, and Hippocrates,Have held it good, in knotty points like these,Lest mischief from too rude assaults should come,To copulate ex more pecudum.What sayst thou, dearest? Do not cry me nay;We cannot err where science shows the way. Don Leon; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron (London, 1866), pp. 42–3 External links Category:Anonymous works Category:Erotic literature