Meaning of “For us there is only one season, the…”

De Profundis; Wilde reflects on suffering as a source of seriousness, humility, and transformed perception.

De Profundis, public-domain 1913 Methuen text; the sentence appears in Wilde’s description of prison time and the apparent sameness of suffering.

Frankenstein; the narrator reflects on the psychological strain created by sudden changes in circumstances.

Isaiah 53:3, King James Version; the line belongs to the suffering-servant passage and combines social rejection with sorrow and grief.

Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation, in a discussion of fortune and apparent stability.

Leaves of Grass (1855), untitled first-edition poem later known as “Song of Myself,” printed page 56 (Wikisource scan page 62). The line belongs to the poem’s final movement, later numbered section 52; the 1855 record remains tied to the unnumbered first edition rather than inheriting later section structure.