490. Loveliest of Trees by AE Housman
b'AE Housman read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nLoveliest of Trees\\nby AE Housman (1859 \\u2013 1936)\\n\\nLoveliest of trees, the cherry now \\nIs hung with bloom along the bough, \\nAnd stands about the woodland ride, \\nWearing white for Eastertide. \\n\\nNow, of my threescore years and ten, \\nTwenty will not come again, \\nAnd take from seventy springs a score, \\nIt only leaves me fifty more. \\n\\nAnd since to look at things in bloom \\nFifty springs are little room, \\nAbout the woodlands I will go \\nTo see the cherry hung with snow.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 30 April 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'