Harlem Shadows the Poems of Claude Mckay

By Mckay, Claude

Book Id: WPLBN0000707172
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 140,942 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Harlem Shadows the Poems of Claude Mckay
Author:	Mckay, Claude
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Poetry, Verse drama
Collections:	Poetry Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Poetry

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Easter Flower // FAR from this foreign Easter damp and chilly // My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, // Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily // Soft-scented in the air for yards around; // Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf! // Just like a fragile bell of silver rime, // It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief // In the young pregnant year at Eastertime; // And many thought it was a sacred sign, // And some called it the resurrection flower; // And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine, // Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.