Time & Brevity
The Dust
From Modern American Poetry (1921)
Time & Brevity
The dust blows up and down
Within the lonely town;
Vague, hurrying, dumb, aloof,
On sill and bough and roof.
What cloudy shapes do fleet
Along the parchèd street;
Clerks, bishops, kings go by—
Tomorrow so shall I.
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MLA
Reese, Lizette Woodworth. “The Dust.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/reese/1/.
Chicago
Reese, Lizette Woodworth. “The Dust.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/reese/1/.
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