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To 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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