ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CONTENTS
WINTER IN CASTILE
NIGHTS AT BASSANO I DIRGE OF THE EMPRESS TAITU OF ABYSSINIA
VAGONES DE TERCERA Refrain
QUAI DE LA TOURNELLE I
ON FOREIGN TRAVEL I
PHASES OF THE MOON I
Title: A Pushcart at the Curb
Author: John Dos Passos
Language: English
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Books by John Dos Passos
NOVELS:
Three Soldiers
One Man's Initiation
Streets of Night
(In Preparation)
ESSAYS:
Rosinante to the Road Again
POEMS:
A Pushcart at the Curb
A PUSHCART AT THE CURB JOHN DOS PASSOS
A PUSHCART AT THE CURB
JOHN DOS PASSOS
A PUSHCART
AT THE CURB
BY
JOHN DOS PASSOS
decorative illustration
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1922,
By George H. Doran Company
decorative illustration
A Pushcart at the Curb. I
Printed in the United States of America
TO THE MEMORY
OF
WRIGHT McCORMICK
WHO TUMBLED OFF A MOUNTAIN
IN MEXICO
My verse is no upholstered chariot
Gliding oil-smooth on oiled wheels,
No swift and shining modern limousine,
But a pushcart, rather.
A crazy creaking pushcart, hard to push
Round corners, slung on shaky patchwork wheels,
That jolts and jumbles over the cobblestones
Its very various lading:
A lading of Spanish oranges, Smyrna figs,
Fly-specked apples, perhaps of the Hesperides,
Curious fruits of the Indies, pepper-sweet ...
Stranger, choose and taste.
Dolo
