Lionel Johnson (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. John J. Burke, C. S. P.) There was a murkier tinge in London's air As if the ...
Joyce Kilmer Poems (59 Poems)
Vision (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) Homer, they tell us, was blind and could not see the beautiful faces Looking up into his own ...
Multiplication (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For S. M. E.) I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well; I look my last ...
Kings (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. James B. Dollard) The Kings of the earth are men of might, And cities are burned for ...
Madness (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Sara Teasdale) The lonely farm, the crowded street, The palace and the slum, Give welcome to my silent feet ...
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 ...
Alarm Clocks (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm Across green fields and yellow hills of hay The little twittering ...
The Robe of Christ (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
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 ...
Easter Week (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(In memory of Joseph Mary Plunkett) ("Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.") William Butler Yeats. ...
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 ...
Houses (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) When you shall die and to the sky Serenely, delicately go, Saint Peter, when he sees you there, ...
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 ...
Thanksgiving (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For John Bunker) The roar of the world is in my ears. Thank God for the roar of the world! ...
Old Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Robert Cortez Holliday) If I should live in a forest And sleep underneath a tree, No grove of impudent ...
Gates and Doors (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Richardson Little Wright) There was a gentle hostler (And blessed be his name!) He opened up the stable The ...
Roofs (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Amelia Josephine Burr) The road is wide and the stars are out and the breath of the night is ...
A Blue Valentine (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) Monsignore, Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus, Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni, Now of the delightful Court of ...
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 House with Nobody in It (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken ...
Wealth (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) From what old ballad, or from what rich frame Did you descend to glorify the earth? Was it ...
Roses (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Katherine Bregy) I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring, For I would make a posy, ...
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 ...
In Memory (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
I Serene and beautiful and very wise, Most erudite in curious Grecian lore, You lay and read your learned books, ...
The Singing Girl (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S. J.) There was a little maiden In blue and silver drest, She sang ...
Apology (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
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 ...