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Claude McKay
Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery)
by Claude McKay
The Barrier
I must not gaze at them although
Your eyes are dawning day;
I must not watch you as you go
Your sun-illumined way;
I hear but I must never heed
The fascinating note,
Which, fluting like a river reed,
Comes from your trembing throat;
I must not see upon your face
Love's softly glowing spark;
For there's the barrier of race,
You're fair and I am dark.
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Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery)
by Claude McKay
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Claude McKay
1889 - 1948
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Jamaican
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1889 - 1948
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