<Dd> You may forever tarry . </Dd> <P> First published in 1648 as number 208 in a volume of verse entitled Hesperides, it is perhaps one of the most famous poems to extol the notion of carpe diem . Carpe diem expresses a philosophy that recognizes the brevity of life and therefore the need to live for and in the moment . The phrase originates in Horace's Ode 1.11 . </P> <P> The opening line, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", echoes the Latin phrase collige, virgo, rosas ("gather, girl, the roses"), which appears at the end of the poem "De rosis nascentibus," also called "Idyllium de rosis," attributed to Ausonius or Virgil . </P> <P> In the second book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a young man in the Bower of Bliss sings, "Gather therefore the Rose, whilest yet is prime, / For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre:/ Gather the Rose of love, whilest yet is time, / Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime ." </P>

Who wrote gather ye rosebuds while ye may