Love Poetry in Near Eastern languages

For Valentine's Day 2008, Eisenbrauns offered a contest in which people could submit an original piece of love poetry written in an ancient Near Eastern language. They posted the winners and honorable mentions on their website. It's absolutely incredible to see what people came up with. There are some written in hieroglyphyics, hebrew, greek, and sumerian!

This piece won first prize, but the others are definitely worth checking out!

Egyptian Love Poem
by Sophie Harvey and Olivier Holmey
Undergraduates in Egyptology at Oxford

I love you.
I'm going to steal your heart
Because I am hungry for your love.
There is no other woman in my heart.
Unloose the bolt to your heart.
Dance with me till the land brightens.
You are my first, my end, my everything.

Heaven on earth is being in your embrace.
You are beautiful of face.
Your body is carved in alabaster.
I adore you like a flower or a star.
You are my first, my end, my everything.

I taste your lips and they are like a soft breeze.
I smell your perfume.
You are a goddess to me.
I was blind but with you I see.
I will take away your clothes
Because we wish to make love.
I breathe upon your body,
Making you tremble with exultation.
I kiss every place of your body.
You fill me with desire.
I will obey your every command.
I can't stop loving you.
I love you.