English Poetry. Claude McKay. A Prayer. Клод Маккей.

Claude McKay (Клод Маккей)

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: 
I can no more than lift my heart to thee for inward light. 

The wild and fiery passion of my youth consumes my soul; 
In agony I turn to thee for truth and self-control. 

For Passion and all the pleasures it can give will die the death; 
But this of me eternally must live, thy borrowed breath. 

’Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling; 
I stumble as I fare along Earth’s way; keep me from falling.

Claude McKay’s other poems:

1. One Year After
2. Exhortation: Summer 1919
3. The Wild Goat
4. To a Poet
5. Birds of Prey

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Dante Rossetti (Данте Россетти) A Prayer (“LADY, in thy proud eyes”)

Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) A Prayer (“My God (oh, let me call Thee mine”)

Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) A Prayer (“O Lord, the hard-won miles”)

Norman Gale (Норман Гейл) A Prayer (“TEND me my birds, and bring again”)

James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) A Prayer (“Again!”) Paris, 1924

Amy Levy (Эми Леви) A Prayer (“Since that I may not have”)

Edward Sill (Эдвард Силл) A Prayer (“O GOD, our Father, if we had but truth!”)

John Stagg (Джон Стэгг) A Prayer (“Hail, mighty Father! God of all!”)

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