Penguin’s Poems for Life

Poems to take you from birth through life, and a little beyond . . .

Penguin’s Poems for Life is the perfect book of verse to inspire, comfort and delight you for a life-time. Whether you are celebrating the birth of a baby, falling in love, earning a living, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes, this rich and wide-ranging treasury is ideal for those moments, big or small, that can only be marked with a poem.

Featuring poets as diverse as Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Chaucer, William Wordsworth and Spike Milligan, as well as Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare, Penguin’s Poems for Life offers you the words you need to express what it means to be alive.