Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom ...
Joyce Kilmer Poems on God (21 Poems)
The Fourth Shepherd (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Thomas Walsh) I On nights like this the huddled sheep Are like white clouds upon the grass, And merry ...
St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
We who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street, Let us kneel and pray on ...
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, ...
The Annunciation (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Helen Parry Eden) "Hail Mary, full of grace," the Angel saith. Our Lady bows her head, and is ashamed; ...
The Visitation (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Louise Imogen Guiney) There is a wall of flesh before the eyes Of John, who yet perceives and hails ...
To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
When you had played with life a space And made it drink and lust and sing, You flung it back ...
Queen Elizabeth Speaks (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
My hands were stained with blood, my heart was proud and cold, My soul is black with shame . . ...
Love’s Lantern (Joyce Kilmer Poems)
(For Aline) Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely land, God set upon my ...
Memorial Day (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
"Dulce et decorum est" The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it sings to-day. The road is ...
Vision (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) Homer, they tell us, was blind and could not see the beautiful faces Looking up into his own ...
The Twelve-Forty-Five (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Edward J. Wheeler) Within the Jersey City shed The engine coughs and shakes its head, The smoke, a plume ...
The Proud Poet (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Shaemas O Sheel) One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed, His eyes were full of ...
The Thorn (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, C. S. C.) The garden of God is a radiant place, And every flower ...
Pennies (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
A few long-hoarded pennies in his hand Behold him stand; A kilted Hedonist, perplexed and sad. The joy that once ...
Thanksgiving (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For John Bunker) The roar of the world is in my ears. Thank God for the roar of the world! ...
The New School (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For My Mother) The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Are still with ...
Stars (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.) Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air, Are you errant strands ...
The Snowman in the Yard (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Thomas Augustine Daly) The Judge's house has a splendid porch, with pillars and steps of stone, And the Judge ...
Trees (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Mrs. Henry Mills Alden) I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree ...
Main Street (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For S. M. L.) I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea, But it ...