Selected Poems

Introduction Works by Claude McKay From Songs of Jamaica Quashie to Buccra Hard Times Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture A Midnight Woman to the Bobby My Native Land, My Home My Mountain Home Jubba From Constab Ballads Preface Bennie's Departure Consolation A Recruit on the Copy The Apple-Woman's Complaint The Heart of a Constab Sukee River Uncollected Poems Invocation (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 Shadows America (Liberator, December, 1921) The Tropics in New York (Liberator, May 1920) Flame-Heart Home Thoughts On 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) Heritage When I Have Passed Away Enslaved (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) Outcast I Know My Soul Birds of Prey (Workers' Dreadnought, October 1920) Exhortation: Summer, 1919 Baptism (Liberator, October 1921) If We Must Die (Liberator, July 1919) Subway Wind (Liberator, August 1921) Poetry A Prayer When Dawn Comes to the City (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920) O Word I Love to Sing Summer Morn in New Hampshire (Worker's Dreadnought, July 1920) Romance Flower of Love A Memory of June (Cambridge Magazine, Summer 1920) One Year After Jasmines (Liberator, August 1921) Memorial Thirst (Liberator, December 1921)