Who was Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer (1886 – 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913). Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.

​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,
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