To a Poet (Claude McKay Poems)
There is a lovely noise about your name, Above the shoutings of the city clear, More than a moment's merriment, ...
Claude McKay Poems (81 Poems)
Africa (Claude McKay Poems)
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the ...
Futility (Claude McKay Poems)
Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away, Let new flames brush my love-springs like a feather. But the ...
On a Primitive Canoe (Claude McKay Poems)
Here, passing lonely down this quiet lane, Before a mud-splashed window long I pause To gaze and gaze, while through ...
The City’s Love (Claude McKay Poems)
For one brief golden moment rare like wine, The gracious city swept across the line; Oblivious of the color of ...
To O.E.A. (Claude McKay Poems)
Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in ...
After the Winter (Claude McKay Poems)
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have ...
Harlem Shadows (Claude McKay Poems)
I hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil. I see ...
On Broadway (Claude McKay Poems)
About me young careless feet Linger along the garish street; Above, a hundred shouting signs Shed down their bright fantastic ...
The Easter Flower (Claude McKay Poems)
Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where gleamed the ...
To One Coming North (Claude McKay Poems)
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of ...
Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table (Claude McKay Poems)
Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad Of subtly-changing and surprising parts; His moods are storms that frighten and make glad, ...
Heritage (Claude McKay Poems)
Now the dead past seems vividly alive, And in this shining moment I can trace, Down through the vista of ...
On the Road (Claude McKay Poems)
Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Impatient people jammed in line for food, The rasping noise of cars together ...
The Harlem Dancer (Claude McKay Poems)
Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of ...
To Winter (Claude McKay Poems)
Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows! There is a subtle sweetness in the sun, The ripples on the ...
America (Claude McKay Poems)
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, ...
Home Thoughts (Claude McKay Poems)
Oh something just now must be happening there! That suddenly and quiveringly here, Amid the city's noises, I must think ...
One Year After (Claude McKay Poems)
I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided ...
The Lynching (Claude McKay Poems)
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to ...
Tormented (Claude McKay Poems)
I will not reason, wrestle here with you, Though you pursue and worry me about; As well put forth my ...