Hello, do you know any good poems about growing old, and regretting, in particular, having regrets about lost love? Also, some poems about the joy and virtue of youth?
I used to read a lot of poems for AP literature, and I enjoyed them a lot, but since then, I have never read one
I think that Fields of Gold speaks to your themes, OP. It was originally done by Sting, but Eva Cassidy’s cover is one of the most poignant songs I’ve ever heard.
Not a big Tennyson fan overall, but this is a very poignant poem–the speaker has been granted immortal life, but not immortal youth, by a god, and now just wishes to die, but cannot.
For a very large selection of poems on this theme, download the Poetry Foundation app. You can sort the poems by theme and mood. Or you can spin the wheel and get random choices. There are thousands of classic and contemporary poems, some very well known and others obscure. It is a very fun app and the answer to questions like this.