Carpe Diem-Seize the Day
Selected by Patrick McCabe
Description
"Carpe Diem" is a Latin phrase meaning "Seize the day" or better translated to "Pluck the day". This phrase means that one is in charge of his own life, so he must take advantage of all the opportunities presented to him and make the best with what he has. This melodious phrase has inspired many poets to write poems such as the ones below.
Synopsis
These are poems about freeing yourself from what ever restraints are put upon you, and seizing the day.
Poems
Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
To the Virgins, Make much of Time by Robert Hendricks
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Youth's the Season Made for Joys by John Gay
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Live Blindly Upon the Hour by Trumbull Stickney
I Have News for You by Tony Hoagland
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Youth's the Season Made for Joys by John Gay
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Live Blindly Upon the Hour by Trumbull Stickney
I Have News for You by Tony Hoagland
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