I always like this one

[minoanmiss]

In honor of the tree TL and I saw on my way in to work today:



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.

-- A.E. Houseman

Comments

[thnidu]

Beautiful! Thank you. But why NSFW?

[minoanmiss]

NSFW? did I do something weird to my post settings?

[tibicina]

Did you accidentally get logged out? I think she has it set to the 'may contain 18+ stuff' but that only kicks in if you're not logged in.

[corvidology]

I haven't read any Houseman in a long time. Thank you!

[cmcmck]

He's writing of where we now live of course and I wrote about our own cherry tree just now! :o)

[lunabee34]

That's lovely. Thank you for sharing.

[pameladean]

This is one of my favorite poems. It's so perfect and so geeky.

P.

[petra]

That is beautiful, thank you!

[hitchhiker]

<3

[anna_wing]

Oh lovely! Houseman is so under-rated now, much as Kipling is.

[cmcmck]

Depends where you live I think.

We live in Shropshire, which is exactly where he is writing about and he is still well known and loved here.

[lokifan]

Oh, lovely!