Trees

Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

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,    5
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.    10
   
Poems are made by fools like me,   
But only God can make a tree.