Tag: American Poetry

On Arbor Day

In honor of Arbor Day, we share two poems from Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby.   PLANT A TREE by Lucy Larcom He who plants a tree, Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibers blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free.…