Who is David Morton

David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909. Morton played on the varsity football team. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey. Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.His work appeared in Harper's Magazine. He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.

Awards

Golden Rose Award

National Arts Club Prize

Works

Poetry

"The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X

Poems: 1920-1945. A.A. Knopf. 1945.

Poems of a Lifetime. Watermark Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58235-075-2.
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David Morton Poems

• The Kings Are Passing Deathward
  The Kings are passing deathward in the dark
  Of days that had been splendid where they went;
  Their crowns are captive and their courts are stark
  Of purples that are ruinous, now, and rent....
• Symbol
  My faith is all a doubtful thing,
  Wove on a doubtful loom,-
  Until there comes, each showery spring,
  A cherry-tree in bloom;...
• Old Ships
  There is a memory stays upon old ships,
  A weightless cargo in the musty hold,-
  Of bright lagoons and prow-caressing lips,
  Of stormy midnights,-and a tale untold....

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Comments about David Morton

• Vintage_obscura: thomas morton - bombas tropical shack [usa, cosmic tropical lounge[(‘87) it’s like david byrne produced a disco record on acid and left half way thru recording and arthur russell took over
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• Capn_space: kerrywatch returns to consider cassidy interviewing sean david morton, america’s favorite fraudster. morton wants you to buy his books while telling tales about nazis, the not-so-secret secret space program and prophetic chaos,
• Pietypoet: look for it on
• Chroniclelive: the great shipyards of the river tyne have been all but erased by the passage of time. the ships, cranes, dry docks, and workers have passed into history. david morton has looked back at some of the more memorable ships built here

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