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Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" Poem

This poem expresses the speaker's view that trees are more lovely than poems. It describes a tree with its roots in the ground drinking from the earth, looking up to God in prayer with its leaves, providing shelter for nesting birds, enduring snow and living with rain. The last line acknowledges that while the speaker can write poems, only God can create something as beautiful as a tree.

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Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" Poem

This poem expresses the speaker's view that trees are more lovely than poems. It describes a tree with its roots in the ground drinking from the earth, looking up to God in prayer with its leaves, providing shelter for nesting birds, enduring snow and living with rain. The last line acknowledges that while the speaker can write poems, only God can create something as beautiful as a tree.

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Trees - Poem by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And 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.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

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