Selected poems

From TROPIC REVERIES, 1930

Longing

Renunciation

In Vain

Incomplete

I am Content

Vows

I Cannot Tell

Love's Lament

Love's Farewell

I Know Not

Absence

Answer

Jamaica

The Singing Pilgrim

To Hampton

To Wed or Not to Wed

If

The Poet's Heart

from HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS, 1931

The Speedwell

Nature's Heart

The Meeting of the Clouds

Jamaica

I Care Not

Resignation

The Peanut Boy

Another Mould

In Jamaica

There Will Come a Time

from THE KEYS

Nigger

Education

from THE MOTH AND THE STAR, 1937

Vagabond Creed

Little Brown Girl

He Called Us Brethren

The Stranger

Quashie Comes to London

Home Thoughts

Nostalgia

Heartbreak Cottages

Darlingford

To the Hibiscus

Winged Ants

My Beloved

Love Songs

The Heart's Cunning

Nightfall

My Need

The Impossible

Reasoning

Confession

The Banjo Boy

The Stone Breakers

My Philosophy

"Black is Fancy"

Gettin' De Spirit

Little Boys

Winifred Holtby

To the I.A.W.S.E.C.

To Joe and Ben

At the Prison Gates

Cinema Eyes

Going to Market

Kinky Hair Blues

Black Burden

Canefield Blues

To Connie

Lonesome Blues

Brown Baby Blues

Foreign

UNPUBLISHED c. 1944

Paris and London

from TOWARDS THE STARS

"They Also Serve"

Interlude

The Test

Politeness

In the Darkness

Frozen

Dawn

UNPUBLISHED LATER POEMS

Emergence

May

The Seed

The Joy of Mountains.