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"Seize the Day!", don't let a minute pass you by. These poems will set you on the right path!

1. We live in deeds ... by Philip James Bailey
2. Prospice by Robert Browning
3. My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion
4. Song: Persuasions to Enjoy by Thomas Carew
5. Drinking Song by John Fletcher
6. Youth's the Season Made for Joys by John Gay
7. O Gather me the Rose by William Ernest Henley
8. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

   making the most of life

9. Corinna's Going A-Maying by Robert Herrick

   Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying,
   Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
   

10. Loveliest of Trees by A. E. Housman

    cherry blossoms at Eastertide, a reason to cherish each year

11. Brittle Beauty by Henry Howard
12. Song: to Celia" by Ben Jonson
13. Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant by Thomas Jordan

    a light reminder that everything comes to an end

    In frolics dispose your pounds, shillings, and pence,
    For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence.
    

14. A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    advice on how to live your life

15. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
16. Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
17. Arise by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
18. To Helen in a Huff by Nathaniel Parker Willis

    The smiles you imprison so lightly
    Are reckon'd, like days in eclipse;