Syllabus

(of poems that I plan to read for a Valentine's-themed poetry reading in the spacious, gracious, bodacious community room of my apartment building. This will have been the fifth reading in a monthly series, begun last October; the readings have been generally well-received.)

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O Tell Me the Truth about Love
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
4.00 to 5.15 pm


Catullus, Mellitos oculos tuos (Latin and English)

Dante, Tanto gentile (Italian and English)

Novalis, Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern (German and English)

Shakespeare, sonnet 18
                        sonnet 116
                        sonnet 130
                        Romeo's "But soft, what light"

Spenser, Amoretti, sonnets 30, 78, 89

Carew, Ask me no more where Jove bestows

Auden, O tell me the truth about love
                You're my cup of tea

E. Browning, How do I love thee?

Millay, Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink
             When we are old ...

Cummings, love is more thicker than forget
                     being to timelessness as it's to time
                     i carry your heart

Heaney, Glanmore Sonnet X
                The Guttural Muse

Roethke, The Dream
                    All the Earth, All the Air

Michelangelo, trans. H. Coleridge, The might of one fair face

Campion, Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow
                  Follow thy saint, follow with accents sweet
                  Rose-cheekt Laura, come

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If anyone can suggest some indispensable poem that I may have overlooked, please speak up in the comment-box!