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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation | |||
LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK NIKES by HARRYETTE MULLEN ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE SABBATH, 1985, VI by WENDELL BERRY PLANTING TREES by WENDELL BERRY THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN |
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