Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_al-hibbler-kilmen-rasbach_gbia0029887a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_fred-waring-and-his-pennsylvanians-gordon-goodman-oscar-rasbach-joyce-kilmer_gbia0010811a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_jan-peace-kilmer-rasbach_gbia0021762b
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_john-carter-with-instrumental-acc.-kilmer-frasbach_gbia0005527a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_john-charles-thomas-joyce-kilmer-oscar-rasbach_gbia0006654a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_john-charles-thomas-joyce-kilmer-oscar-rasbach_gbia0007308a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_kilmer-rosbach_gbia0012897a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_nelson-eddy-joyce-kilmer-oscar-rasbach-nathaniel-shilkret-and-orchestra_gbia0006445a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_richard-tauber-kilmer-rasbach_gbia0010647a
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_sons-of-the-pioneers-joyce-kilmer-oscar-rabach_gbia0007439b
https://archive.org/details/78_trees_stash-carter-kilmer-rasbach_gbia0008640b
Publication Date
1922
Lyrics
I think 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 robbins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Recommended Citation
Kilmer, Joyce and Resbach, Oscar, "Trees" (1922). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1230.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1230
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Trees
Poem by Joyce Kilmer
Music by Oscar Resbach
New York: G. Schirmer (1922)
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