Famous Seize The Day Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Seize The Day poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous seize the day poems. These examples illustrate what a famous seize the day poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Horace to Leuconoë

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 I pray you not, Leuconoë, to pore 
With unpermitted eyes on what may be 
Appointed by the gods for you and me, 
Nor on Chaldean figures any more. 
’T were infinitely better to implore
The present only:—whether Jove decree 
More winters yet to come, or whether he 
Make even this, whose hard, wave-eaten shore 

Shatters the Tuscan seas to-day, the...Read more of this...

Rabbi Ben Ezra

by Robert Browning
 Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith 'A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!'

Not that, amassing flowers,
Youth sighed 'Which rose make ours,
Which lily leave and then as best recall?'
Not that, admiring stars,
It yearned 'Nor...Read more of this...

Drink wine! and then as Mahmud thou wilt reign,

by Omar Khayyam
Drink wine! and then as Mahmud thou wilt reign,
And hear a music passing David's strain:
Think not of past or future, seize to-day,
Then all thy life will not be lived in vain....Read more of this...

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