Joyce Kilmer

Trees Joyce Kilmer

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-FivePenniesTreesStarsOld PoetsDelicatessenServant Girl and Grocer's BoyWealthMartinThe Apartment HouseAs Winds That Blow Against A StarSt. LaurenceTo A Young Poet Who Killed HimselfMemorial DayThe RosaryVisionTo Certain PoetsLove's LanternSt. AlexisFollyMadnessPoetsCitizen of the WorldTo a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the SpringThe Fourth ShepherdEasterMount HouvenkopfThe House with Nobody in ItDave LillyAlarm ClocksWaverley