Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmerwas an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees", which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 December 1886
CityNew Brunswick, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There is no peace to be taken/ With poets who are young,/ For they worry about the wars to be fought/ and the songs that must be sung.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree
When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.