This remarkable anthology of poems and prose on the human condition brings together a wide range of romantic and humanist thought from around the world. The editors have selected some of the most powerful poems and meditations from Maya Angelou, W. H. Auden, E. E. Cummings, Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epicurus, Robert Frost, Kahlil Gibran, Thomas Hardy, Robert Herrick, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, John Lennon, Lucretius, Ogden Nash, Thomas Paine, Sylvia Plath, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, Sappho, Seneca, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, and many other notables. Seasons of Life can be enjoyed independently or as a useful complement to various ceremonies, such as births, graduations, weddings, celebrations, funerals, and much more.