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Life as We Know It
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Poems in this book are from popular and unpopular authors that write poems that range from time under the category of carpe diem, to aging, to life in general.
 
Poetry
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] by William Shakespeare
A Song On the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell
Almost Sixty by Jim Moore
Along with Youth by Ernest Hemingway
Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
Beyond the Years by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Fear of the Future by John Koethe
First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Fixed Interval by Devin Johnston
Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) by Emily Dickinson
In View of the Fact by A. R. Ammons
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour by Trumbull Stickney
Moonlight by Sara Teasdale
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On Time by John Milton
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. by Noah Eli Gordon
The Edges of Time by Kay Ryan
The Human Seasons by John Keats
The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Young Man's Song by W. B. Yeats
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
When You are Old by W. B. Yeats
You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
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