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Title: A Pushcart at the Curb

Author: John Dos Passos

Release Date: June 11, 2010 [eBook #32778]

Language: English

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A PUSHCART AT THE CURB

by

JOHN DOS PASSOS

* * * * *

_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

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_

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

For permission to reprint certain of the poems
in this volume, thanks are due _The Bookman_,
_The Dial_, _Vanity Fair_, _The Measure_, and
_The New York Evening Post_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

WINTER IN CASTILE 13

NIGHTS AT BASSANO 65

VAGONES DE TERCERA 109

QUAI DE LA TOURNELLE 139

ON FOREIGN TRAVEL 163