Carpe diem poems have been widely interpreted as poems about seizing the day and making the most of every opportunity, especially when it comes to finding love and chasing after possibilities of love. Poems with the carpe diem theme focus mostly on the concept of time passing quickly and how fleeting moments can be. Love, or the possibility of love, is also a popular focus because with lost moments come the possibility of regret, which has always been frightening to the masses. But, are these poems of seizing the day really about love or are they so focused and obsessed with the now and the concept of instant gratification that love morphs itself into lust with persuasions of possible love? The popular carpe diem poems To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick, Song (Go, Lovely Rose) by Edmund Waller, and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell can be in question. The poems below can be seen as poems of lust rather than poems of love.