Claude McKay

1889-1948 / Jamaican

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AbsenceYour words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool, / Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool. / Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb,

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AdolescenceThere was a time when in late afternoon / The four-o'clocks would fold up at day's close / Pink-white in prayer, and 'neath the floating moon

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AfricaThe sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, / The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; / When all the world was young in pregnant night

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After the WinterSome day, when trees have shed their leaves / And against the morning's white / The shivering birds beneath the eaves

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Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at TableAlfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad / Of subtly-changing and surprising parts; / His moods are storms that frighten and make glad,

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A Memory of JuneWhen June comes dancing o'er the death of May, / With scarlet roses tinting her green breast, / And mating thrushes ushering in her day,

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AmericaAlthough she feeds me bread of bitterness, / And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, / Stealing my breath of life, I will confess

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A Prayer'Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling; / I stumble as I fare along Earth's way; keep me from falling. / Mine eyes are open but they cannot see for gloom of night:

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A Red FlowerYour lips are like a southern lily red, / Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night, / In which the brown bee buries deep its head,

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BaptismInto the furnace let me go alone; / Stay you without in terror of the heat. / I will go naked in--for thus ''tis sweet--

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