I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
—From "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven...
—From "Birches" by Robert Frost
Give some tree the gift of green again.
Let one bird sing.
—From "When Autumn Came" by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translated by Naomi Lazard
More Poems about Trees:
| A Poison Tree by William Blake I was angry with my friend... |
| Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell Something seems to have gnawed that walnut leaf... |
| An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree... |
| Arbolé, Arbolé . . . by Federico García Lorca Tree, tree / dry and green... |
| Before the Snake by Nathaniel Tarn Sitting, facing the sun, eyes closed. I can hear the... |
| Birch by Cynthia Zarin Bone-spur, stirrup of veins—white colt... |
| Birches by Robert Frost When I see birches bend to left and right... |
| Christmas Trees by Robert Frost The city had withdrawn into itself... |
| Get Used To It by Margaret Young Wake up, even Monday the cup's still full... |
| Hard Night by Christian Wiman What words or harder gift... |
| How From Politeness to the Trees by Cecily Parks Solstice dabbles behind the hills, whitefire at the horizon well into... |
| How to Uproot a Tree by Jennifer K. Sweeney Stupidity helps... |
| In California During the Gulf War by Denise Levertov Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among... |
| Leaves by Lloyd Schwartz Every October it becomes important, no, necessary... |
| Letter from Town: The Almond Tree by D. H. Lawrence You promised to send me some violets. Did you forget?... |
| Loveliest of Trees by A.E. Housman Loveliests of trees, the cherry now... |
| Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren You stand in the brook, mud smearing... |
| My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker My friend tree / I sawed you down... |
| Not Dead by Robert Graves Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain... |
| Orpheus by William Shakespeare Orpheus with his lute made trees... |
| Pear Tree by H. D. Silver dust / lifted from the earth... |
| Russian Birch by Nathaniel Bellows Is it agony that has bleached them to such beauty? Their stand... |
| Solstice by Ellen Dudley On the first full day of summer the sun is up... |
| Song of the Trees by Mary Colborne-Veel We are the Trees... |
| The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass They are walking in the woods along the coast... |
| The Branches by Jean Valentine The branches looked first like tepees... |
| The Lemon Trees by Eugenio Montale Hear me a moment. Laureate poets... |
| The Life of Trees by Dorianne Laux The pines rub their great noise... |
| The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray Christmas is here... |
| The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant Come, let us plant the apple-tree... |
| The Sound of the Trees by Robert Frost I wonder about the trees... |
| The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz On my way home from school... |
| The Weight by Linda Gregg Two horses were put together in the same paddock... |
| The Wishing Tree by Kathleen Jamie I stand neither in the wilderness... |
| This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Well, they are gone, and here must I remain... |
| Trees by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see... |
| Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence Ah in the thunder air... |
| Trees Need Not Walk the Earth by David Rosenthal Trees need not walk the earth... |
| Vertical by Linda Pastan Perhaps the purpose... |
| When Autumn Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz This is the way that autumn came to the trees... |
| White Trees by Nathalie Handal When the white trees are no longer in sight... |
| Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details ... |