A Poem Lovely as a Tree?

I've got a strong hankering for some budding, flowering trees.

The ultimate tree poem:

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry.  1919

Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

 

119. Trees

 

I THINK that I shall never see  

A poem lovely as a tree.  

 

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest  

Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;  

 

A tree that looks at God all day,         5

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.  10

 

Poems are made by fools like me,  

But only God can make a tree.