Harlem Shadows the Poems of Claude Mckay

By Mckay, Claude

Book Id: WPLBN0000707175
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 141,012 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: YOUR voice is the color of a robin's breast, // And there's a sweet sob in it like rain-still rain in the night. // Among the leaves of the trumpet-tree, close to his nest, // The pea-dove sings, and each note thrills me with strange delight // Like the words, wet with music, that well from your trembling throat. // I'm afraid of your eyes, they're so bold, // Searching me through, reading my thoughts, shining like gold. // But sometimes they are gentle and soft like the dew on the lips of the eucharis // Before the sun comes warm with his lover's kiss. // You are sea-foam, pure with the star's loveliness, // Not mortal, a flower, a fairy, too fair for the beauty-shorn earth. // All wonderful things, all beautiful things, gave of their wealth to your birth. // Oh I love you so much, not recking of passion, that I feel it is wrong! // But men will love you, flower, fairy, non-mortal spirit burdened with flesh, // Forever, life-long.