Harlem Shadows

by Claude McKay

76 chapters2h 4mEnglish1922

About this book

An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his colorful and emotional poetry. . - Summary by Denise Ray

Chapters (75)

1Author's Word

277

2The Easter Flower

3To One Coming North

4America

5Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table

6The Tropics in New York

7Flame Heart

142

8Home Thoughts

9On Broadway

10The Barrier

11Adolescence

12Homing Swallows

13The City's Love

14North and South

15Wild May

16The Plateau

17After the Winter

18The Wild Goat

19Harlem Shadows

108

20The White City

21The Spanish Needle

22My Mother

127

23In Bondage

24December 1919

25Heritage

26When I Have Passed Away

27Enslaved

28I Shall Return

29Morning Joy

30Africa

31On a Primitive Canoe

32Winter in the Country

102

33To Winter

34Spring in New Hampshire

35On the Road

36The Harlem Dancer

37Dawn in New York

38The Tired Worker

39Outcast

40I know My Soul

41Birds of Prey

42The Castaways

43Exhortation: Summer, 1919

157

44The Lynching

45Baptism

46If We Must Die

47Subway Wind

48The Night Fire

49Poetry

50To A Poet

51A Prayer

52When Dawn Comes to the City

176

53O Word I Love to Sing

54Absence

55Summer Morn in New Hampshire

56Rest in Peace

57A Red Flower

112

58Courage

59To O.E.A.

110

60Romance

61Flower of Love

104

62The Snow Fairy

134

63La Paloma in London

64A Memory of June

65Flirtation

66Tormented

67Polarity

68One Year After

125

69French Leave

106

70Jasmines

71Commemoration

72Memorial

110

73Thirst

74Futility

75Through Agony

141

Harlem Shadows

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