Overview
Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer "Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems. The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer perceives as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature. TREES AND OTHER POEMS The Twelve-Forty-Five Pennies Trees Stars Old Poets Delicatessen Servant Girl and Grocer's Boy Wealth Martin The Apartment House As Winds That Blow Against A Star St. Laurence To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself Memorial Day The Rosary Vision To Certain Poets Love's Lantern St. Alexis Folly Madness Poets Citizen of the World To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring The Fourth Shepherd Easter Mount Houvenkopf The House with Nobody in It Dave Lilly Alarm Clocks Waverley
- | Author: Joyce Kilmer
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Oct 04, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 36 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1977922570
- | ISBN-13: 9781977922571
