This poet wrote, "God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky" in the poem "Main Street."
This poet wrote, "God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky" in the poem "Main Street." He commemorated the First Battalion of the 42nd Division in the poem "Rouge Bouquet," which was written shortly before his death from a sniper's bullet in 1918. His most famous poem discusses an object "upon whose bosom snow has lain; who intimately lives with rain." That poem was parodied in Ogden Nash's "Song of the Open Road," which notes that "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote that "poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make" one of the titular plants in "Trees."
This poet wrote, "God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky" in the poem "Main Street."
{Joyce Kilmer}