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Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare’s idea of the “seven ages” of a human life, Penguin's Poems for Life bring together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, Penguin's Poems for Life is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, Penguin's Poems for Life offers something for each of those moments in life – whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes – when only a poem will do.