 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...  The Bookman - Page 2331918Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 560 pages
...that make him for many a delight We quote the simple joy of these lines under the trees and blossoms : Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. NOTES The death of a number of important persons must be recorded. That of Dr. Richard Garnettof the... | |
 | Clarence Darrow - 1899 - 78 pages
...only fleeting ray of light that life holds out to man. This he puts on the lips of his Shropshire Lad: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow." We have emotions and feelings, and all that is left for us, is to go and see "the cherries hung with... | |
 | 1906 - 548 pages
...that make him for many a delight We quote the simple joy of these lines under the trees and blossoms : Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. NOTES The death of a number of important persons must be recorded. That of Dr. Richard Garnettof the... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1908 - 126 pages
...not -. Be you the men you've been, Get you the sons your fathers got, And God will save the Queen. II LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. HI THE RECRUIT LEAVE your home behind, lad, And reach your friends your hand, And go, and luck go with... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1927 - 492 pages
...as I whistled The trampling team beside, And fluted and replied " ; etc. And Spring in England : " Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow." I have taken sincerely many Nature poems to heart. But again and again they seem variously out of focus... | |
 | 1917 - 338 pages
...is eigenlik te kort om er al 't moois af te kijken; laat daarom de lentetijd niet ongebruikt (II). Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. ') Ik gebruik dit woord zonder de minste geringschatting. 't Is niet alleen ,,carpe diem", 't is ,,carpe... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 372 pages
...death and the grave is a mark of youth. Young poets love to write about death, because its contrast to their present condition forms a romantic tragedy,...ironical bitterness that makes one think of Time's Laughing stocks. Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A better... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1918 - 344 pages
...cycle of life In you is fulfilled. • ••••••• EVELYN UNDERBILL "LOVELIEST OF TREES" LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. AE HOUSMAN THE SPIRIT OF THE BIRCH I AM the dancer of the wood I shimmer in the solitude Men call me... | |
 | 1921 - 796 pages
...the bough, "And stands about the woodland ride "Wearing white for Eastertide. "Now, of my three score years and ten, "Twenty will not come again, "And take...woodlands I will go "To see the cherry hung with snow." This is the poem from "A Shropshire Lad" that BLT loved so he used to reprint it every spring in the... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1918 - 344 pages
...Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. 155 And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs...woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. AE HOUSMAN THE SPIRIT OF THE BIRCH I AM the dancer of the wood I shimmer in the solitude Men call me... | |
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