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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: If life is dust, is not dust life?
Last Line: Defend their rights as living dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dust
First Line: If life is dust, is not dust life?
Last Line: Defend their rights as living dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dust
If Life is dust, is not dust Life?
We're walking on the backs of living things;
On things that live we sleep.
I kick a stone that -- were its life released --
Could in its fury leap
Into my face and be a frantic beast.
What things lie sleeping all around,
That may awake at last
And, joining in our mortal strife,
Defend their rights as living dust!
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