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In reply to the discussion: “I have had a most rare vision”: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night [View all]CTyankee
(63,901 posts)You might want to check out community college courses in poetry. My cc is free for seniors over the age of 62 (I had to buy the text book however). I took Italian 101 and Italian 102 at my cc. The text was $100 but was used for both courses.
In my area there are Learning in Retirement courses for seniors. I taught one on love poetry entitled "Bright Star and Wild Darling." It was a 4 week seminar. Here is what I offered:
The Poetry of Love
LOVE'S PASSION
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives -- Rumi
Don't go far off, not even for a day -- Neruda
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones -- Roethke
When Sue wears red -- Langston Hughes
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as thou Art -- Keats
I Carry Your Heart with Me -- e.e. cummings
There's a man -- Sappho
I am the Rose of Sharon -- attributed to King Solomon
Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun -- Donne
ENDURING LOVE
My monkey-wrench man is my sweet patootie -- Margaret Walker
Touch Me -- Kunitz
Madonna of the Evening Flowers -- Amy Lowell
Cloths of Heaven -- Yeats
O, never say that I was false of heart - Shakespeare (sonnet 109)
Sonnet from "The Amoretti" (little love poems) TBD - Spenser
LOSS AND REMEMBRANCE
Funeral Blues -- Auden
Reluctance -- Frost
I slept in the past -- Izumi Shikibu
What lips my lips have kissed -- Millay
RENUNCIATION
The soul selects her own society -- Dickinson
That Will to Divest -- Kay Ryan
Circe's Power -- Gluck