I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
ATTRIBUTION:
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), U.S. poet. Poetry (Chicago, Aug. 1913). Trees, Trees and Other Poems (1914).
Ogden Nash wrote a riposte: “I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.” (Song of the Open Road in Happy Days, 1933).
