Africa (Claude McKay Poems)
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the ...
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the ...
Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away, Let new flames brush my love-springs like a feather. But the ...
Here, passing lonely down this quiet lane, Before a mud-splashed window long I pause To gaze and gaze, while through ...
For one brief golden moment rare like wine, The gracious city swept across the line; Oblivious of the color of ...
Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in ...
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have ...
I hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil. I see ...
About me young careless feet Linger along the garish street; Above, a hundred shouting signs Shed down their bright fantastic ...
Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where gleamed the ...
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of ...
Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad Of subtly-changing and surprising parts; His moods are storms that frighten and make glad, ...
Now the dead past seems vividly alive, And in this shining moment I can trace, Down through the vista of ...
Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Impatient people jammed in line for food, The rasping noise of cars together ...
Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of ...
Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows! There is a subtle sweetness in the sun, The ripples on the ...
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, ...
Oh something just now must be happening there! That suddenly and quiveringly here, Amid the city's noises, I must think ...
I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided ...
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to ...
I will not reason, wrestle here with you, Though you pursue and worry me about; As well put forth my ...
Into the furnace let me go alone; Stay you without in terror of the heat. I will go naked in--for ...
Swift swallows sailing from the Spanish main, O rain-birds racing merrily away From hill-tops parched with heat and sultry plain ...
For the dim regions whence my fathers came My spirit, bondaged by the body, longs. Words felt, but never heard, ...
No engines shrieking rescue storm the night, And hose and hydrant cannot here avail; The flames laugh high and fling ...
The tired cars go grumbling by, The moaning, groaning cars, And the old milk carts go rumbling by Under the ...
Their shadow dims the sunshine of our day, As they go lumbering across the sky, Squawking in joy of feeling ...
I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see ...
Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower, And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee. Bowing my head in ...
It was the silver, heart-enveloping view Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day, That ...
Aleta mentions in her tender letters, Among a chain of quaint and touching things, That you are feeble, weighted down ...
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