Joyce Kilmer
Who is Joyce Kilmer
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), 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. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).: p.27 He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regi...
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Joyce Kilmer Poems
- Ballade Of My Lady's Beauty
Squire Adam had two wives, they say,
Two wives had he, for his delight,
He kissed and clypt them all the day
And clypt and kissed them all the night.
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- The Ballade Of Butterflies
Because we never build a nest
And no one of us ever sings,
We are the butt of every jest
That strutting loud-mouthed robin flings.
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- Servant Girl And Grocer's Boy
Her lips' remark was: "Oh, you kid!"
Her soul spoke thus (I know it did):
"O king of realms of endless joy,
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- St. Alexis, Patron Of Beggars
We who beg for bread as we daily tread
Country lane and city street,
Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway
To the saint with the vagrant feet....
- Love's Lantern
(For Aline)
Because the road was steep and long
And through a dark and lonely land,...
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Comments about Joyce Kilmer
- Deytonbrewer: “ 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…”
- “trees” by joyce kilmer
- Bandogurrl: poems are made by thirsty fools like me,
but only god can make a namu tree.
dear. lord. help.
sorry joyce kilmer
- Ecotourismrc: "i think that i shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." ~ joyce kilmer.
- Etunner: trees
i think that i shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree.
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;
poems are made by fools like me,
but only god can make a tree.
joyce kilmer
j
- Ithinkiamsteven: "spring sorrow" by aline kilmer (1888-1941), from candles that burn (1919). she lost her daughter, rose (age 5) in 1917, shortly before her husband, the poet joyce, was deployed to france, where he was killed in 1918 at the second battle of the marne.
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