Potential Titles: Claude McKay
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somethingdarkerTo stir my fluent blood - Claude McKay "Absence"
Through the menacing miles - Claude McKay "Absence"
Thy sphinx of riddle eyes - Claude McKay "Africa"
Shivering birds beneath the eaves - Claude McKay "After the Winter"
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
Feeds me bread of bitterness - Claude McKay "America"
Like tides into my blood - Claude McKay "America"
Into the furnace let me go - Claude McKay "Baptism"
In terror of the heat - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Although your eyes are dawning day - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Must never heed the fascinating note - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Golden moment rare like wine - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
My hostile heart to win - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
And burnt you yielding - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Quiet worship at our scented shrine - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Bathed in your immortal flame - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Bare rocks where the eagles build - Claude McKay "Courage"
Though the fountain reached my throat - Claude McKay "December, 1919"
With misery triumphant everywherer - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Glutted with baffled hopes and lost to pity - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strange agonies make quiet lodgment there - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bursting sewers ooze up from below - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Flooding all areas with their evil flow - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Blocking all the motion of its veins - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Withered in its dank contagious breath - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On nests of floweres among those rocks recline - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Breathing deadly poison at the lips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On the blossoms fatal nectar sips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That on the fiercely-burning rocks recline - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Swarming across the glassy floor of space - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Before the fall of pestilential showers - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Blown worlds beyond by the destroying storms - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Biding the cycle of disruptive change - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"
Throwing off the grave's disguise - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"
Sons of the seductive night - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"
Sweet with the golden threads - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
Here let us linger indivisible - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
The portals of your sanctuary unseen - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
The old fever seizes me - Claude McKay "Futility"
Of precious powers spent - Claude McKay "Futility"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
When night lets fall its fall - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
And unawares a riddle - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
No tinted thoughts to paint you true - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
And binding rule forever broken - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
This awful key to my infinity - Claude McKay "I Know My Soul"
And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
My thousand dreams of waters - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Even the monsters we defy - Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
Will remain like the eternal stars - Claude McKay "In Bondage"
Too loud the wind's mad roar - Claude McKay "Jasmines"
That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"
Baptized in tender rain - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
A love so fugitive and so complete - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
For the snow's weird light - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Detained a fragile shadow - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
The penalty of difference in the crowd - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The loneliness of wisdom among fools - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The blended fires that heat his veins within - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Shaping his metals into finest steel - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Mysteries that seem beyond life's bar - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drink its foamy dust like sparkling wine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And echo accents of the laugh divine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Too tender for all the passions - Claude McKay "O Word I Love to Sing"
Into a symbol of the tender moon - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"
An old wine has intoxicated me - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"
A hundred shouting signs - Claude McKay "On Broadway"
Which poisoned our illicit wine - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Exceeds the bound of laws - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Through hours of soulful dread - Claude McKay "One Year After"
But when the terror thins - Claude McKay "One Year After"
No rigid road for me - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Bondaged by the body - Claude McKay "Outcast"
May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"
The purple flowers of fragrant June - Claude McKay "The Plateau"
Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Hide my tortured soul - Claude McKay "Poetry"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Before thy blazing light - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Sweep me into utter night - Claude McKay "Poetry"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Betray the secret of your soul - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
With nights of unabating bitterness - Claude McKay "Rest in Peace"
And in the holy silences be lost - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bow down before the marble man of woe - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What jewelled glory fills my spirit's eye - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Takiing my breath with their rare symmetry - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whirl fantastic in the misty air - Claude McKay "The Snow Fairy"
Do you of the exile dream? - Claude McKay "The Spanish Needle"
While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"
Idle in the dew drenched night - Claude McKay "Subway Wind"
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
The immortal music of all days - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
Like the words, wet with music - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
With strange delight - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Afraid of your eyes - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Before the sun comes warm - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Underneath a spell of heat and light - Claude McKay "To One Coming North"
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
The night is yours for revels - Claude McKay "Tormented"
Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"
The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
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Through the menacing miles - Claude McKay "Absence"
Thy sphinx of riddle eyes - Claude McKay "Africa"
Shivering birds beneath the eaves - Claude McKay "After the Winter"
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
Feeds me bread of bitterness - Claude McKay "America"
Like tides into my blood - Claude McKay "America"
Into the furnace let me go - Claude McKay "Baptism"
In terror of the heat - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Although your eyes are dawning day - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Must never heed the fascinating note - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Golden moment rare like wine - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
My hostile heart to win - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
And burnt you yielding - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Quiet worship at our scented shrine - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Bathed in your immortal flame - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
Bare rocks where the eagles build - Claude McKay "Courage"
Though the fountain reached my throat - Claude McKay "December, 1919"
With misery triumphant everywherer - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Glutted with baffled hopes and lost to pity - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strange agonies make quiet lodgment there - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bursting sewers ooze up from below - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Flooding all areas with their evil flow - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Blocking all the motion of its veins - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Withered in its dank contagious breath - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On nests of floweres among those rocks recline - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Breathing deadly poison at the lips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On the blossoms fatal nectar sips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That on the fiercely-burning rocks recline - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Swarming across the glassy floor of space - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Before the fall of pestilential showers - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Blown worlds beyond by the destroying storms - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Biding the cycle of disruptive change - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"
Throwing off the grave's disguise - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"
Sons of the seductive night - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"
Sweet with the golden threads - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
Here let us linger indivisible - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
The portals of your sanctuary unseen - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
The old fever seizes me - Claude McKay "Futility"
Of precious powers spent - Claude McKay "Futility"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
When night lets fall its fall - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"
And unawares a riddle - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
No tinted thoughts to paint you true - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
And binding rule forever broken - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
This awful key to my infinity - Claude McKay "I Know My Soul"
And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
My thousand dreams of waters - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Even the monsters we defy - Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
Will remain like the eternal stars - Claude McKay "In Bondage"
Too loud the wind's mad roar - Claude McKay "Jasmines"
That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"
Baptized in tender rain - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
A love so fugitive and so complete - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
For the snow's weird light - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Detained a fragile shadow - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
The penalty of difference in the crowd - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The loneliness of wisdom among fools - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The blended fires that heat his veins within - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Shaping his metals into finest steel - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Mysteries that seem beyond life's bar - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drink its foamy dust like sparkling wine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And echo accents of the laugh divine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Too tender for all the passions - Claude McKay "O Word I Love to Sing"
Into a symbol of the tender moon - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"
An old wine has intoxicated me - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"
A hundred shouting signs - Claude McKay "On Broadway"
Which poisoned our illicit wine - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Exceeds the bound of laws - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Through hours of soulful dread - Claude McKay "One Year After"
But when the terror thins - Claude McKay "One Year After"
No rigid road for me - Claude McKay "One Year After"
Bondaged by the body - Claude McKay "Outcast"
May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"
The purple flowers of fragrant June - Claude McKay "The Plateau"
Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Hide my tortured soul - Claude McKay "Poetry"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Before thy blazing light - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Sweep me into utter night - Claude McKay "Poetry"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Betray the secret of your soul - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
With nights of unabating bitterness - Claude McKay "Rest in Peace"
And in the holy silences be lost - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bow down before the marble man of woe - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What jewelled glory fills my spirit's eye - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Takiing my breath with their rare symmetry - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whirl fantastic in the misty air - Claude McKay "The Snow Fairy"
Do you of the exile dream? - Claude McKay "The Spanish Needle"
While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"
Idle in the dew drenched night - Claude McKay "Subway Wind"
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
The immortal music of all days - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
Like the words, wet with music - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
With strange delight - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Afraid of your eyes - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Before the sun comes warm - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
Underneath a spell of heat and light - Claude McKay "To One Coming North"
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
The night is yours for revels - Claude McKay "Tormented"
Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"
The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Love glorious in his friendly might - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
Poet's Wikipedia page.
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
