Claude McKay — English Poetry Library

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Claude McKay1889–194819th centurycommunist Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet.
He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
This library now includes 265 poems by Claude McKay.
Claude McKay is commonly associated with communist.

Poems

259 poems

0. R.A, 7712 lines
04 THE SPELLIOF BRITTANY8 lines
10 Flame-Heart12 lines
100 Ancient A postles—Peter29 lines
102 THE SPELL OP BRITTAMY30 lines
104 Ancient A postles—Peter4 lines
104 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY24 lines
106 Ancient A postles—Peter9 lines
106 THE SPELL OF BRITTANA63 lines
108 THE SPELL OR BRITTANY27 lines
110 THE SPELL OF BRIT30 lines
114 THE SPELL’ OF BRITTANY29 lines
116 THE SPELL’ OF BRITTANY.30 lines
13 THE DITCH69 lines
15 THE DITCH71 lines
17 THE DITCH60 lines
19 THE BREAKWATER66 lines
21 THE BREAKWATER35 lines
23 THE BREAKWATER70 lines
25 THE BREAKWATER7 lines
29 MALTY TURNED DOWN70 lines
3 THE DITCH34 lines
31 MALTY TURNED DOWN34 lines
33 MALTY TURNED DOWN106 lines
35 MALTY TURNED DOWN35 lines
37 MALTY TURNED DOWN35 lines
39 HARD FEEDING34 lines
4 Lae9 lines
41 HARD FEEDING34 lines
43 HARD FEEDING34 lines
5 THE DITCH35 lines
6 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY30 lines
63 MEETING-UP53 lines
65 MEETING-UP70 lines
67 MEETING-UP71 lines
69 MEETING-UP32 lines
7 MEETING-UP46 lines
7 THE DITCH35 lines
70 THE SPELL OF BRIGTANY63 lines
73 MEETING-UP34 lines
75 MEETING-UP28 lines
76 Ancient A postles—Peter29 lines
78 Ancient A postles—Peter14 lines
78 THE SPELL, OF BRITTANY30 lines
80 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY7 lines
82 Ancient A postles—Peter29 lines
84 Ancient A postles—Peter7 lines
84 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY30 lines
86 Ancient A postles—Peter23 lines
88 Ancient A postles—Peter30 lines
88 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY23 lines
9 THE DITCH70 lines
90 Ancient A postles—Peter19 lines
92 Ancient A postles—Peter15 lines
92 THE SPELL OF BRITTANY33 lines
96 Ancient A postles—Peter9 lines
96 THE SPELL OP BRIDE ARY30 lines
98 Ancient A postles—Peter18 lines
A BRETON WEDDING 11330 lines
A BRETON WEDDING 11530 lines
A BRETON WEDDING 11730 lines
About me young and careless feet3 lines
About this command George L. Weed writes:16 lines
ADOLESCENCE9 lines
ALFONSO, DRESSING TO WAIT AT TABLE5 lines
AMERICA14 lines
An APOSTLE CHOSEN6 lines
AN INTRODUCTION TO BRITTANY 530 lines
AN INTRODUCTION TO BRITTANY 747 lines
And fill the noonday with their curious fluting.11 lines
And toss them quickly in the tangled mass10 lines
And we will build a cottage there3 lines
And what month brings the shy forget-me-not.3 lines
As in a dream I stand and gaze3 lines
As they departed the woman vehemently bade them13 lines
At Lydda and Joppa 10122 lines
At Lydda and Joppa 9731 lines
At Lydda and Joppa 9930 lines
At Mary’s House13 lines
Author of4 lines
Author's Word Xx121 lines
BANJO 1035 lines
BANJO 1234 lines
BANJO 1434 lines
BANJO 1635 lines
BANJO 202235 lines
BANJO 2235 lines
BANJO 2444 lines
BANJO 2649 lines
BANJO 2835 lines
BANJO 3217 lines
BANJO 3436 lines
BANJO 3634 lines
BANJO 434 lines
BANJO 4034 lines
BANJO 4235 lines
BANJO 4433 lines
BANJO 4667 lines
BANJO 48139 lines
BANJO 50126 lines
BANJO 5267 lines
BANJO 5470 lines
BANJO 5651 lines
BANJO 5872 lines
BANJO 622 lines
BANJO 6235 lines
BANJO 6417 lines
BANJO 6635 lines
BANJO 6835 lines
BANJO 7035 lines
BANJO 7435 lines
BANJO 835 lines
BANJO 8038 lines
BANJO 9834 lines
Banjo caressed his instrument. “I nevah part with46 lines
Banjo grinned and tossed off his Cap Corse. “All15 lines
Banjo kicked him on the heel.32 lines
Banjo waved his hand deprecatingly: “He ain’t in12 lines
Banjo went along with Malty and company. He35 lines
BBRELEBEER26 lines
But a pleasant surprise awaits us at Porz-Even.23 lines
But now no balm—nor drug nor weed nor wine—3 lines
But there was one able lawyer among them who had4 lines
But though the fountain reached my throat5 lines
Cathedral of Tréguier.17 lines
CHAPTER15 lines
Chosen30 lines
CLOSING SCENES OF A RIGHTEOUS MINISTRY26 lines
Closing Scenes of a Righteous Ministry 1095 lines
Cornelius12 lines
Dancers WITHIN THE FoLp6 lines
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird13 lines
DECEMBER, 19196 lines
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart5 lines
Defense3 lines
Dengel’s nose was bleeding badly.24 lines
Did not forever feed me vital blood.3 lines
Do you see me all expectant4 lines
Donated by5 lines
ENSLAVED10 lines
ERNEST RENAN64 lines
FELIX DE LAMENNAIS 7330 lines
FELIX DE LAMENNAIS 7531 lines
Gay kisses to imaginary lasses.11 lines
Given6 lines
GUINGAMP, PAIMPOL AND PIERRE LOTI 7932 lines
GUINGAMP, PAIMPOL AND PIERRE LOTI 8120 lines
HARLEM SHADOWS19 lines
Hatred7 lines
HERITAGE18 lines
His Greed7 lines
HISTORY OF BRITTANY 964 lines
I. _ The Ditch28 lines
II4 lines
II THE DITCH70 lines
II. Malty Turned Down28 lines
Iib The Breakwater27 lines
IN BONDAGE8 lines
In Lower Brittany the wedding involves much11 lines
Into a symbol of the tender moon.5 lines
Introduction xi25 lines
Introduction xiil51 lines
Introduction XV51 lines
Introduction XVIl58 lines
It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief4 lines
It is a relief to see him done with affairs28 lines
IV. Hard Feeding28 lines
ix26 lines
Just got back from shaking that thing!4 lines
Knowing that as soon as he would be missed in16 lines
Ladadawionhrn te ecsn tte eA a6 att11 lines
Le8 lines
LESSON 1317 lines
LESSON 1419 lines
LESSON 1523 lines
LESSON 1625 lines
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS90 lines
Malty had wanted Latnah for himself. But she had51 lines
Meat eh36 lines
MORLAIX, BARDS AND POETS IOI30 lines
MORNING JOY3 lines
MY MOTHER3 lines
My Mother 274 lines
NaH uR al ooruy uonlingy = Bevis }3 lines
Ne i> h88 lines
No doubt these priests would have punished the6 lines
NORTH AND SOUTH21 lines
Not far distant from Lydda was another city named16 lines
Of forced conscription and young Negroes running10 lines
Of moving carriages below.3 lines
Of native chiefs punished by mutilation.25 lines
Of waters rushing down the mountain passes.3 lines
Oh something just now must be happening there!4 lines
ON A PRIMITIVE CANOE7 lines
One such joined the Church in England a few years35 lines
Or underneath a spell of heat and light7 lines
PAGE10 lines
Paris. A contemporary wrote: “A priest is stir-5 lines
Pe ae78 lines
Persecuted but Undismayed 879 lines
Persecuted but Undismayed 896 lines
PETER AND JOHN ARRESTED21 lines
Peter and John Arrested 8l30 lines
Peter’s Address31 lines
Scornful of teacher’s rod and binding rule4 lines
Several years ago she passed on at the age of .32 lines
Shake That Thing! That jelly-roll Thing!19 lines
She pointed to the nail where hung my cap.6 lines
Si bared42 lines
Sick Healed4 lines
Simon Rebuked20 lines
Somebody translated what was what to the new sea-24 lines
SPREE37 lines
St. Perer in Pri8 lines
Stephen Martyred5 lines
T58 lines
TE12 lines
Temple.15 lines
That32 lines
The34 lines
THE BARRIER13 lines
The French Government.called it a “dangerous25 lines
THE LEGEND AND PARDON OF ST. YVES 9737 lines
THE LEGEND AND PARDON OF ST. YVES 999 lines
The man was so happy that he went into the Tem-15 lines
THE PLATEAU12 lines
The players paused and some girls tried to order74 lines
The question as to whether the Gentiles might re-22 lines
THE SPANISH NEEDLE7 lines
The Third I mprisonment 10330 lines
The Third Imprisonment 10530 lines
THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK12 lines
The ungracious suggestion in the third line indi-18 lines
THE WILD GOAT4 lines
Then said Peter and the other Aposiles:13 lines
THIRD PART12 lines
THIRD PRINTING, APRIL, 192932 lines
TO ONE COMING NORTH4 lines
TREGUIER, ST. YVES AND ERNEST RENAN 8331 lines
TREGUIER, ST. YVES AND ERNEST RENAN 878 lines
TU4 lines
Two Deceivers22 lines
Two of these were Ananias and his wife Sapphira.4 lines
Up to the school-house crumbling on the hill.5 lines
Vii22 lines
Vl. Meeting-up28 lines
We 130 lines
We have now reached that period in his life when28 lines
We must not leave Tréguier without mention of :31 lines
We NTS se CV Gay a sen31 lines
When all that shines to-day is drift and dust3 lines
When under alien sod my bones lie rotten4 lines
Which put into French:18 lines
While we leave them in solemn prayer on the night23 lines
WILD MAY15 lines
Winter in the Country8 lines
Woy ORK4 lines
Xll Introduction25 lines
XxX Author's Word25 lines