JOYCE KILMER

WIKISOURCE APRIL 2022 FEATURED TEXT - TREES AND OTHER POEMS BY JOYCE KILMER

Trees and Other Poems is a collection of poems written by Joyce Kilmer and published in 1914. Of the various poems included in the volume, "Trees", which begins "I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree," is the poem for which Kilmer is best remembered. The same year that this volume was published, Kilmer was abroad visiting England. Upon seeing the long lines of men waiting to enlist for WW I, he exclaimed, "My God, if I look at these boys much longer I'll have to hook on at the tail of this queue and join up with them!" Kilmer enlisted on 23 April 1917, shortly after America entered the war. He was killed on July 30, 1918—just over 100 years ago. - There is a 72 page pdf of this work available for download. - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Trees_and_Other_Poems