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    Trees and Other Poems
    Trees and Other Poems
    Trees and Other Poems
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    Trees and Other Poems

    By Joyce Kilmer

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    Release dateJan 1, 1982

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      I can not believe I am the first to post a review, but then again, I can not believe in what they call poetry today. Kilmer used scanning and rhyming and for that, I am grateful. Yes, TREES is his most famous poem, but there are some other possibly great ones herein. Kilmore probably is considered homeophobic today att he univeresity level, as his poem TO CERTAIN POETS reflects some poets' namby-pamby sillinerss and concldes that these word-usurpers should leave poetry to "real men."

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    Trees and Other Poems - Joyce Kilmer

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    Title: Trees and Other Poems

    Author: Joyce Kilmer

    Release Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #263]

    Last Updated: February 4, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TREES AND OTHER POEMS ***

    Produced by A. Light, and David Widger

    TREES AND OTHER POEMS

    by Joyce Kilmer

    [Alfred Joyce Kilmer, American

    (New Jersey & New York) Poet — 1886-1918.]

    Edition of 1914.

    [A number of these poems originally appeared in various periodicals.]

    TREES AND OTHER POEMS

         "Mine is no horse with wings, to gain

          The region of the Spheral chime;

         He does but drag a rumbling wain,

          Cheered by the coupled bells of rhyme."

                                  Coventry Patmore

    To My Mother

         Gentlest of critics, does your memory hold

          (I know it does) a record of the days

          When I, a schoolboy, earned your generous praise

         For halting verse and stories crudely told?

         Over these childish scrawls the years have rolled,

          They might not know the world's unfriendly gaze;

          But still your smile shines down familiar ways,

         Touches my words and turns their dross to gold.

         More dear to-day than in that vanished time

          Comes your nigh praise to make me proud and strong.

         In my poor notes you hear Love's splendid chime,

          So unto you does this, my work belong.

         Take, then, a little gift of fragile rhyme:

          Your heart will change it to authentic song.

    CONTENTS

    To My Mother

    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

    TREES AND OTHER POEMS

    The Twelve-Forty-Five

         (For Edward J. Wheeler)

         Within the Jersey City shed

         The engine coughs and shakes its head,

         The smoke, a plume of red and white,

         Waves madly in the face of night.

         And now the grave incurious stars

         Gleam on the groaning hurrying cars.

         Against the kind and awful reign

         Of darkness, this our angry train,

         A noisy little rebel, pouts

         Its brief defiance, flames and shouts —

         And passes on, and leaves no trace.

         For darkness holds its ancient place,

         Serene and absolute, the king

         Unchanged, of every living thing.

         The houses lie obscure and still

         In Rutherford and

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