Carpe Diem

Song to Celia by Ben Jonson
Drinke to me, onely, with thine eys
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it--it's the only
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
We cannot know his legendary head
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] by William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
If— by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
A Song On the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
To be alive by Gregory Orr
To be alive: not just the carcass
The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
I have walked through many lives
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) by William Shakespeare
When I consider every thing that grows
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) by Emily Dickinson
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] by William Shakespeare
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths by Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths
A Shropshire Lad, II by A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Three Airs for the Beggar’s Opera, Air XXII by John Gay
Youth's the season made for joys
O, Gather Me the Rose by William Ernest Henley
O, gather me the rose, the rose
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] by Samuel Daniel
Are they shadows that we see
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour by Trumbull Stickney
Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter
Daphnis and Chloe by Haniel Long
You found it difficult to woo
My life closed twice before its close (96) by Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close
Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska
The City by C. P. Cavafy
Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
Age saw two quiet children
Barter by Sara Teasdale
Life has loveliness to sell