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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: carpe diem Matches Found: 111 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "GO BOLDLY FORTH, AND FEAST ON BEING'S BANQUET", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "thou art the called, -- the rest admitted with thee" Subject(s): Carpe Diem "LOVE IN THY YOUTH, FAIR MAID, BE WISE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Too late then wilt thou shower thy tears / and I too late sha all sorrow Variant Title(s): Madrigal Subject(s): Carpe Diem A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest lesbia, let us live and love Last Line: And crown with love my ever-during night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Dead, The A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you are young and I am old Last Line: Thou fool! To-morrow thou must die!' Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Youth A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSE, TO M. JOHN WICKS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a life, to break thy sleep? Last Line: From whence there's never a return. Variant Title(s): The Easy Life Subject(s): Carpe Diem A PSALM OF LIFE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, in mournful numbers Last Line: Learn to labor and to wait. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Religion; Theology A SERENADE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy guardians are asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Love; Carpe Diem A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ADAPTED FROM BEN JONSON, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my celia, let us prove Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets AMORETTI: 70, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh spring, the herald of love's mighty king Last Line: For none can call againe the passed time. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love AMOUR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me Last Line: To die! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love ASKING FOR ROSES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master Last Line: And grants us by silence the boon of her roses. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Roses BEST TO BE MERRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fooles are they, who never know Last Line: Gratifie the genius. Subject(s): Carpe Diem BLUE GIRLS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth; Impermanence BLUE GIRLS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Last Line: Since she was lovelier than any of you Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth BODDHISATTVA BARBARIAN, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source First Line: The flowers are bright, the moon is dark Last Line: Let's grab all the pleasure we can Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) BREAKING THROUGH THE RANKS, by YAN SHU Poem Source First Line: That time of year when swallows are set to go Last Line: These feelings, in thousands, one after another Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) BUT NOW, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall be lonely in my grave Last Line: And leave destiny to chance. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hey nonny no! / men are fools that wish to die! Last Line: Hey nonny no! Subject(s): Carpe Diem;freedom; Liberty CARPE DIEM, by JEAN ANTOINE DE BAIF Poem Text First Line: Emperor and turk, I wot Last Line: And her cupids all be there. Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by GEORGE ETHEREGE Poem Text First Line: It is not, celia, in our power / to say how long our love will last Last Line: But change a lover for a friend. Variant Title(s): To A Lady, Asking How Long He Would Love Her Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Love CARPE DIEM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age saw two quiet children Last Line: Too present to imagine Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age saw two quiet children Last Line: Too present to imagine Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though pretty, it rarely worked, lining seduction Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though pretty, it rarely worked, lining seduction Last Line: Already all here and late maybe for the time of my life Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Today what is there in the air Last Line: And my whole soul shall bloom and bear to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love; Soul; Spring; Time CARPE DIEM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, that pursuest with such eager pace Last Line: A man at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the dull thought smites me dumb Last Line: From the great tree igdrasil. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM (TO AN OVER-STUDIOUS YOUNG WOMAN), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dainty maid, come, leave your books Last Line: You are another flower. Subject(s): Carpe Diem CATOES MORALL DISTICHS; TRANSLATED AND PARAPHRASED, SELS., by MARCUS PORCIUS CATO UTICENSIS Poem Source First Line: Mixe with thy studies sometimes recreation Last Line: The minde, without care rusts; without mirth, mourns Subject(s): Carpe Diem CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence DANCE LITTLE LADY, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though you're only seventeen Last Line: Dance, dance, dance, little lady! %leave to-morrow behind Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Dancing And Dancers DEATH IN LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He always said he would retire Last Line: He found he had already died Subject(s): Carpe Diem;death; "dead, The; ENJOY THY APRIL NOW, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Carpe Diem EPIGRAM: 5. IMITATED. AD LESBIAM, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lesbia let us love and play Last Line: My lesbia and I did kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem EPITAPH: FOR ONE WHO GAILY SOWED HIS OATS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days were a thing for me to live Last Line: Rind, inner fruit, and core Subject(s): Carpe Diem FADING BEAUTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Take time, my dear, ere time takes wing Subject(s): Carpe Diem FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? Last Line: Youth's stuff will not endure. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth FIRST FIG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My candle burns at both ends Last Line: It gives a lovely light! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): My Candle Subject(s): Carpe Diem FLOWERS FALLING, SPRING COMES TO AN END, by KIM SUJANG Poem Source Last Line: What idiots are they %who speak against us having fun? Subject(s): Carpe Diem GATHER YE ROSES WHILE YE MAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gather ye roses while ye may. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Carpe Diem GLAMOUR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come while youth's bright rosy veil Last Line: For soon, too soon, we see! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Carpe Diem GRAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hard times wait in days to come Last Line: Just hitch six dragons to your coach %and frolic at the edge of clouds Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts HARPER'S SONG FOR INHERKHAWY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All who come into being as flesh Last Line: Let your heart be drunk on the gift of day %until that day comes when you anchor Subject(s): Carpe Diem HENCE CARE!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sing we and chant it Last Line: To live in pleasure. / fa la la! Variant Title(s): Madrigal Set By Thomas Morley (12) Subject(s): Carpe Diem HORACE TO LEUCONOE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you not, leuconoe, to pore Last Line: And let the morrow come for what it will. Subject(s): Carpe Diem I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are people who do not see a broken playground swing Last Line: And let it touch them all over their faces and bodies Subject(s): Carpe Diem I SEEK THE PRESENT TIME, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When the engine bell rings Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Travel I WANT TO LIVE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall be all too still some day Last Line: My bit of ashes to the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Carpe Diem IN A PROMINENT BAR IN SECAUCUS ONE DAY, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And she blew us a kiss as they copped her away %from that prominent bar in secaucus, n.J Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Aging; Bars And Bartenders; Carpe Diem; New Jersey IN THE HAYMARKET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I danced at your ball a year ago Last Line: And to-night, who cares? And to-morrow, who knows? Subject(s): Carpe Diem IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright - the air is clear Last Line: There are no birds in last year's nest! Subject(s): Carpe Diem IT'S RAINING, by MAX WALLER Poem Source First Line: It's raining, hurry over, my love Last Line: For our sins will be pardoned, %and we'll laugh, since the sky is crying Subject(s): Carpe Diem LESBIA, LET US LIVE ONLY FOR LOVING, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Knowning the volume of our trade in kisses Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Kisses; Love LESBIA, LIVE TO LOVE, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lesbia, live to love and pleasure Last Line: Neither we nor envy know. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem LET'S BE GAY WHILE WE MAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And not a moment after Subject(s): Carpe Diem LIVE EACH DAY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou fashion for thyself a seemly life? Last Line: Live each day as if thy life were just begun. Subject(s): Carpe Diem LIVE IN THE PRESENT, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget the past and live the present hour Last Line: Who conquers now shall rule the coming years. Variant Title(s): Now Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; New Year LOVE'S PRIME, by THOMAS MAY Poem Text First Line: Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong Last Line: And flies away from aged things. Subject(s): Carpe Diem LOVE-HOTEL, by MAX WALLER Poem Source First Line: My heart is like a grand hotel Last Line: If nothing unexpected arises, %we'll pack up and say goodbye forever Subject(s): Carpe Diem MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies are white and blue Last Line: Death comes in a day or two. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou still unravished bride of quietness Last Line: Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elgin Marbles; Mortality ODES I, 11. CARPE DIEM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not, for thou shalt not find it, what may end, what thine shallbe Last Line: Jealous time. Mistrust to-morrow, catch the blossom of to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): Odes I, 11. To Leuconoe Subject(s): Carpe Diem ODES I, 11. TO LEUCONOE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not right for you to know, so do not ask, leuconoe Last Line: The longest life is brevity. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Carpe Diem ODES I, 11. TO LEUCONOE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not, I leuconoe -- to know is forbidden -- what end Last Line: Seize the day: entrusting as little as possible to tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Carpe Diem ODES I, 2. CARPE DIEM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strive not leuconoe, to know what end Last Line: This day's thine own; the next may be denied Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Carpe Diem ODES: 1, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: The roses love in the gardens of adonis Last Line: The little while we last Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Roses OLD CEILING DIAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See the little day-star moving Last Line: Lest you lose them, %and lament the wasted day Subject(s): Carpe Diem ON THE WIND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy goes by like a bird Last Line: When the game is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Carpe Diem PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying %to make you hear Last Line: I am a lady young in beauty waiting Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth RESOLUTE COURTIER, by THOMAS SHIPMAN Poem Source First Line: Prithee, say aye or no Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love ROCOCO, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By studying my lady's eyes Last Line: "she'll weary of you by and by." Variant Title(s): Carpe Diem Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, you pretty false-eyed wanton Last Line: And you my saint unnamed. Subject(s): Carpe Diem SHOULD I DIE BY THE FORCE OF GOOD WINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Who with drinking made his grave Subject(s): Carpe Diem;drinks & Drinking SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The poor survivor may not weep and wake Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Carpe Diem SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As swift as time put round the glass Last Line: For to be merry's to be wise Subject(s): Carpe Diem;drinks & Drinking SONG, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence SONG, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's an aeon, love's a day Last Line: There'll be years and years for brooding. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Carpe Diem SONG (11), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, be gentler, I advise Last Line: And never know the joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Carpe Diem SONG (4), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we with fancied cares Last Line: Let us quaff the cup of joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Carpe Diem SONNET FOR HELEN: 2, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, at evening candle-lit Last Line: Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE ADVICE; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor celia once was very fair Last Line: Young ladies, marry, marry while you may! Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE BUD, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately on yonder swelling bush Last Line: To wax more soft, her youth invades Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE FOLD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold / the time is now! Last Line: And let me be the fold! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE MAID'S REMONSTRANCE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never wedding, ever wooing Last Line: Not with age, but wo! Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If all the world and love were young Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer; Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me and be my love Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love. Variant Title(s): The Milkmaid's Song Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow is a day too far Last Line: Foresee the men we may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WASSAIL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give way, give way ye gates, and win Last Line: T'ave lost the good ye might have had. Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE WHIM; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why so serious, why so grave? Last Line: When the play's at an end, let the curtain fall down. Subject(s): Carpe Diem THOU THAT WOULDST MARK, IN FORM OF HUMAN BIRTH, by PETRARCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But if thou still delay, for long regret prepare Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Carpe Diem THREE SHORT POEMS: 1, by PAAVO HAAVIKKO Poem Source First Line: You can't take with you Last Line: Is perfectly useless Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO A GIRL, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Believe me, love, it is not good Last Line: Ashes and dust in death we are! Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO BE BORN IN THIS HUMAN BODY IS RARE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Awaken and sleep no more - %brief are the days of life Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision TO CAROLINE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear you express an affection so warm Last Line: And quaff the contents as our nectar below. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Transiensce; Carpe Diem TO DELIA: 31, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose Last Line: But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again. Variant Title(s): "a Supplication;""looke, Delia, How Wee Steeme The Half-blowne Rose""; Subject(s): Beauty; Carpe Diem; Love TO DELIA: 32, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But love whilst that thou may'st be loved again Last Line: When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. Variant Title(s): Delia: 32 Subject(s): Beauty; Carpe Diem; Love TO ENJOY THE TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While fates permits us, let's be merry Last Line: With the rotation of the day. Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO LESBIA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest lesbia, let us live and love Last Line: And crown with love my ever-during night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Dead, The TO LIVE FREELY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's live in hast; use pleasures while we may Last Line: Co'd life return, 'twod never lose a day. Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO PHILLIS, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, why should we delay Last Line: For the joys we now may prove, %take advice of present love Variant Title(s): To Phylli Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO SAPPHO (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us now take time, and play Last Line: No return from thence we have. Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO YOUTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drink wine, and live here blithefull, while ye may Last Line: The morrowes life too late is, live to-day. Subject(s): Carpe Diem UNDER A PATCHED SAIL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we'll drink once more Last Line: Come lad—to the days that are! Subject(s): Carpe Diem VOLPONE: TO CELIA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my celia, let us prove Last Line: These have crimes accounted been. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Venetian Song;viamus;carmina, V: To Celia (imitated From Catullus);song. To Celia Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love WASHING CREEK SANDS, by YAN SHU Poem Source First Line: Only a moment, this season's splendor Last Line: The person before your eyes Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands Subject(s): Carpe Diem YOUTH AND CUPID, by ELIZABETH I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was fair and young, and favour graced me Last Line: "importune me no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Variant Title(s): Importune Me No More Subject(s): Carpe Diem |
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