English

Jacqueline Waller

Today, 18:22

Which TWO sections of the poem express the view that life is too short and should be enjoyed while you can?

Loveliest of Trees

by A. E. Housman

1) Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

2) Now, of my three score years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from 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

To see the cherry hung with snow.