Social Commentaries

The City’s Love

by Claude McKay 1889–1948

From Harlem Shadows

Social Commentaries

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.

MLA

McKay, Claude. “The City’s Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mckay/11/.

Chicago

McKay, Claude. “The City’s Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mckay/11/.

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