1904. An infant in the caretaker's arms is just …

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. Infancy. VII. “At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.” The first stage of life is birth.

At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

This poem is one of the most famous works of Shakespeare due to its first phrase “All the world’s a stage”. The World's Best Poetry. About “The Seven Ages of Man (”All the world’s a stage”)” In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It , the sad Jacques delivers these lines as a monologue in Act II, Scene vii . Birthmarks the entry of man in the first stage of life. It is a speech of a philosopher Jacques talking to Duke Senior. Descriptive Poems: II. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Seven Ages of Man. The poem “Seven Ages of Man” is a part of the comedy “As you like it” written by William Shakespeare. Infancy. William Shakespeare (1564-1616). … Nature and Art.