Kilmer’s 1914 collection opens with a midnight train out of Jersey City and moves through New Jersey suburbs, apartment houses, a delicatessen, a servant girl and a grocer’s boy, along with devotional poems and an elegy for a young poet who killed himself. At its heart is the short lyric “Trees,” one of the most quoted poems in American verse.
A slim book by a poet killed in France in 1918, warm, devout and easy to love. Download the free EPUB.