 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 1038 pages
...We had been rolling through a dark valley where cherry-trees were in bloom, singing Housman's lines: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide." The tune was our own, but the meaning was universal. At a turn of the road we looked up and saw that... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...of tears 1 hid from Him, and under running laughter. ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN. Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy years a score, It only leaves me fifty more. Loveliest of Treet. When I was one-and-twenty I heard... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1916 - 448 pages
...such a lot going on everywhere. " He quoted a verse of The Shropshire Lad, of which he was very fond : "'Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will...seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more;"' adding, "That's the only instance I know of a subtraction sum made into perfect poetry — but it's... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1918 - 344 pages
...your cells; Its rhythmical cycle of life In you is fulfilled. EVELYN UNDERHILL "LOVELIEST OF TREES" LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. 155 And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will... | |
 | 1921 - 796 pages
...sit and look at your neighbors. It won't hurt yo"u to look at them through a veil of cherry-blossoms. "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now "Is hung with...woodland ride "Wearing white for Eastertide. "Now, of my three score years and ten, "Twenty will not come again, "And take from seventy springs a score, "It... | |
 | Brand Whitlock - 1919 - 692 pages
...walls overhung with cherry boughs in bloom. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now, Is hung with blooms along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride, Wearing white for Eastertide. The sun rays slanted across the fields, enveloping every roof and outline with an aura — a phenomenon... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1920 - 272 pages
...strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's. " LOVELIEST OF TREES " Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. 39 Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1920 - 276 pages
...hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. 39 Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, \, S And take from seventy springs a score, ^ J It only leaves me fifty more. \i ^ And since to look... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1922 - 112 pages
...not : Be you the men you 've been. Get you the sons your fathers got, And God will save the Queen. n LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom...seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. 3 And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1922 - 112 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...about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To... | |
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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... 
