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,
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.


Poems are made by fools like me,   
But only God can make a tree.  Joyce Kilmer 1914.