Russian Cathedral (Claude McKay Poems)
Bow down my soul in worship very low And in the holy silences be lost. Bow down before the marble ...
Bow down my soul in worship very low And in the holy silences be lost. Bow down before the marble ...
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes, Nor the rain make lamentation When the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
I. At last; so this is you, my dear! How should I guess to find you here? So long, so ...
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa, August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & ...
I was but a half-grown boy, You were a girl-child slight. Ah, how weary you were! You had led in ...
Romance was always young. You come today Just eight years old With marvellous dark hair. Younger than Dante found you ...
(Note: - Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.) "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in ...
This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung ...
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds ...
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping, Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping To sight, ...
Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry, The windows were shaking, there was thunder on high, The ...
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over The edge of the blue, and the ...
(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.) I heard Immanuel singing ...
I have opened the window to warm my hands on the sill Where the sunlight soaks in the stone: the ...
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
The little pansies by the road have turned Away their purple faces and their gold, And evening has taken all ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
I wonder, can the night go by; Can this shot arrow of travel fly Shaft-golden with light, sheer into the ...
To believe is to know that every day is a new beginning. It is to trust that miracles happen, and ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
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