“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer [w/ Audio]

I think that 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 robins in her hair;

Upon whose busom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Fickle Fortunes [Rhyming Couplets]

Don't rest your hopes on a four-leaf clover,
or pray the gray will lift and blow over.

A lucky rabbit would retain its foot,
and a four-shoed horse can still go kaput.

In life, friends and foes can do-si-do,
and which one is which, you may not know.