A Poem Lovely as a Tree?


I've got a strong hankering for some budding, flowering trees.

The ultimate tree poem:
Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry.  1919
Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918 119. Trees I THINK that I shall never see  A poem lovely as a tree.    A tree whose hungry mouth is prest  Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;    A tree that looks at God all day,         5And lifts her leafy arms to pray;    A tree that may in summer wear  A nest of robins in her hair;    Upon whose bosom snow has lain;  Who intimately lives with rain.  10  Poems are made by fools like me,  But only God can make a tree.


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Published on March 14, 2014 16:40
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