Trees

Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer portrait

1886 to 1918

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Poems are made by fools like me,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Who intimately lives with rain.
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
I think that I shall never see
A tree that may in Summer wear
A tree that looks at God all day,
A poem lovely as a tree.
But only God can make a tree.

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