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Trees

This poem expresses the speaker's view that trees are more lovely than poems. It describes a tree that feeds from the earth, looks to God in prayer with its leaves, provides shelter for nesting birds, experiences snow and rain intimately. The last line acknowledges that while the speaker can make poems, only God can create a tree.

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Trees

This poem expresses the speaker's view that trees are more lovely than poems. It describes a tree that feeds from the earth, looks to God in prayer with its leaves, provides shelter for nesting birds, experiences snow and rain intimately. The last line acknowledges that while the speaker can make poems, only God can create a tree.

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Trees

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,


An d 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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