English Poetry. Claude McKay. The City’s Love. Клод Маккей.

Claude McKay (Клод Маккей)

The City’s Love

For one brief golden moment rare like wine, 
The gracious city swept across the line; 
Oblivious of the color of my skin, 
Forgetting that I was an alien guest, 
She bent to me, my hostile heart to win, 
Caught me in passion to her pillowy breast; 
The great, proud city, seized with a strange love, 
Bowed down for one flame hour my pride to prove.

Claude McKay’s other poems:

1. The Wild Goat
2. To a Poet
3. The White House
4. Thirst
5. To One Coming North

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