Claude Mckay: Selected Poems

Claude McKay (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Jamaican-born American poet and novelist who was one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance. His book Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by a Black American author to that time. Before moving to the United States in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads (1912).

• IntroductionWorks by Claude McKay From Songs of JamaicaQuashie to BuccraHard TimesCudjoe Fresh from de LectureA Midnight Woman to the BobbyMy Native Land, My HomeMy Mountain HomeJubba From Constab BalladsPrefaceBennie's DepartureConsolationA Recruit on the CopyThe Apple-Woman's ComplaintThe Heart of a ConstabSukee River Uncollected PoemsInvocation (Seven Arts, October 1917)To the White Fiends (Pearson's Magazine, September 1918)The Dominant White (Liberator, April 1919)A Capitalist at Dinner (Liberator, July 1919)The Negro Dancers (Liberator, July 1919)The Little Peoples (Liberator, July 1919)To "Holy" Russia (Workers' Dreadnought, February 1920)Song of the New Soldier and Worker (Workers' Dreadnought, April 1920)Battle (Worker's Dreadnought, April 1920)Negro Spiritual (Liberator, May 1922)The White House (Liberator, May 1922) From Harlem ShadowsAmerica (Liberator, December, 1921)The Tropics in New York (Liberator, May 1920)Flame-HeartHome ThoughtsOn Broadway (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)The Barrier (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)North and South (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)After the Winter (Liberator, Juy 1919)Harlem Shadows (Pearson's Magazine, September 1918)The White City (Liberator, October, 1921)My Mother (Liberator, March 1920)In Bondage (Liberator, August 1921)HeritageWhen I Have Passed AwayEnslaved (Liberator, July 1921)Winter in the Country (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)Spring in New Hampshire (Liberator, August 1919)On the Road, (Liberator, March 1922)The Harlem Dancer (Seven Arts, October 1917)The Tired Worker (Liberator, August 1919)OutcastI Know My SoulBirds of Prey (Workers' Dreadnought, October 1920)Exhortation: Summer, 1919Baptism (Liberator, October 1921)If We Must Die (Liberator, July 1919)Subway Wind (Liberator, August 1921)PoetryA PrayerWhen Dawn Comes to the City (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)O Word I Love to SingSummer Morn in New Hampshire (Worker's Dreadnought, July 1920)RomanceFlower of LoveA Memory of June (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920)One Year AfterJasmines (Liberator, August 1921)MemorialThirst (Liberator, December 1921)