Commemoration (Claude McKay Poems)
When first your glory shone upon my face My body kindled to a mighty flame, And burnt you yielding in ...
When first your glory shone upon my face My body kindled to a mighty flame, And burnt you yielding in ...
So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the ...
UPON thy purple mat thy body bare Is fine and limber like a tender tree. The motion of thy supple ...
I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see ...
Your body was a sacred cell always, A jewel that grew dull in garish light, An opal which beneath my ...
O word I love to sing! thou art too tender For all the passions agitating me; For all my bitterness ...
About me young careless feet Linger along the garish street; Above, a hundred shouting signs Shed down their bright fantastic ...
I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided ...
To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper soft and ...
For one brief golden moment rare like wine, The gracious city swept across the line; Oblivious of the color of ...
It was the silver, heart-enveloping view Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day, That ...
Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in ...
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