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Claude McKay (Клод Маккей)


The Easter Flower


Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly 
My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, 
Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily 
Soft-scented in the air for yards around; 

Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf! 
Just like a fragile bell of silver rime, 
It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief 
In the young pregnant year at Eastertime; 

And many thought it was a sacred sign, 
And some called it the resurrection flower; 
And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine, 
Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.



Claude McKay's other poems:
  1. A Memory of June
  2. A Red Flower
  3. Memorial
  4. O Word I Love to Sing
  5. The Spanish Needle


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