One of my favorite short poems, A.E. Housman included "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now" as the second poem in his landmark collection: A Shropshire Lad.
In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at the setting, the speaker's age, and the lasting message of the poem.
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.
- 1896
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