Nature

Dust

by Helen Hay Whitney 1875–1944

From Herbs and Apples (1910)

Nature

Motes of the city dust, could this thing be
That midst your myriad particles for me
Might come one atom out of Ispahan,
One spiced far memory of caravan.

Indrawn upon my breath I'd know an urge
To dissipate monotony, and purge
The spirit of its spleen; one with the man
Who takes the sun blue air of Ispahan.

MLA

Whitney, Helen Hay. “Dust.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitney_hh/204/.

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Whitney, Helen Hay. “Dust.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitney_hh/204/.

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