12inch x 18inch Poster The poem is illustrated by a Cock Spaniel jumping after a blue butterfly. Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 ? July 30, 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith. - There is a border around the image. Image size is correct.