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Tree by Jane Hirshfield

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Tree by Jane Hirshfield
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Posted on 05-23-2011

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It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.

Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.

That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books—

Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

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About This Poem
  • Poet:
    Jane Hirshfield (b. 1953)

  • Poetic Terms:
    Free Verse

Jane Hirshfield, “Tree” from Given Sugar, Given Salt. Copyright © 2001 by Jane Hirshfield. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Source: Given Sugar Given Salt (HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2001)




“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which
futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they understand not, the trumpets which
sing to battle and feel not what they inspire: the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are
the unacknowledged legislators of the World.” --- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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