Description
Carpe Diem, Seize the day.
A simple enough saying, capturing the whole of human
innovation and motivation towards higher goals and establishment of beliefs and
opinions. By doing what you know and think is right for you.
Synopsis
Poems about going out into life and making the most of it.
-The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
-To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
-Dreams by Langston Hughes
-A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
-A Shropshire Lad, II by A. E. Housman
-If by Rudyard Kipling
-Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
-A Song On the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
-The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
-Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
-O Me! O Life by Walt Whitman
-I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl by Emily Dickinson
-Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
-Barter by Sara Teasdale
-We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths by Philip James Bailey
-O, Gather Me the Rose by William Ernest Henley
-Three Airs for the Beggar's opera, Air XXII by John Gay
-Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] by Samuel Daniel
-My life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson
