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