{"poem":{"id":"E94413FD-0FFD-59C5-9196-77F1473A0FD0","title":"Courage","content":"O lonely heart so timid of approach,\n  Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips\n  To the faint touch of tender finger tips:\nWhat is your word? What question would you broach?\n\nYour lustrous-warm eyes are too sadly kind\n  To mask the meaning of your dreamy tale,\n  Your guarded life too exquisitely frail\nAgainst the daggers of my warring mind.\n\nThere is no part of the unyielding earth,\n  Even bare rocks where the eagles build their nest,\n  Will give us undisturbed and friendly rest.\nNo dewfall softens this vast belt of dearth.\n\nBut in the socket-chiseled teeth of strife,\n  That gleam in serried files in all the lands,\n  We may join hungry, understanding hands,\nAnd drink our share of ardent love and life.","author":"Claude McKay","source":"api","sourceName":"Harlem Shadows (1922) · Project Gutenberg","sourceURL":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64989/pg64989-images.html#COURAGE","rightsNotice":"Public domain in the United States.","rightsURL":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","publicationYear":1922},"date":"2026-11-08","timezone":"UTC","selection":"bundled","fallback":false}