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-Five
• Pennies
• Trees
• Stars
• Old Poets
• Delicatessen
• Servant Girl and Grocer's Boy
• Wealth
• Martin
• The Apartment House
• As Winds That Blow Against A Star
• St. Laurence
• To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself
• Memorial Day
• The Rosary
• Vision
• To Certain Poets
• Love's Lantern
• St. Alexis
• Folly
• Madness
• Poets
• Citizen of the World
• To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring
• The Fourth Shepherd
• Easter
• Mount Houvenkopf
• The House with Nobody in It
• Dave Lilly
• Alarm Clocks
• Waverley