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Joyce Kilmer Remembered: Trees, Spring, and the Strength of Old Oaks

Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an American journalist and poet. He is primarily remembered for his short poem "Trees," published in 1913.

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an American journalist and poet. He is primarily remembered for his short poem “Trees,” published in 1913. July…

December 6, 2019 Dianthus Syrup, African Flora Threatened, The Potato Exhibit, Johann Zinn, a Smithsonian letter, J Bernard Brinton, Joyce Kilmer, Plants Are Terrible People by Luke Ruggenberg, Fiskars Snip, and the Cincinnati Herbarium

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Trees: Joyce Kilmer’s timeless ode to the beauty and divinity of trees

A serene winter scene featuring evergreen pine trees covered in heavy snow.

By Alfred 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…