Claude McKay, "The Choice" (1920)
And house me from the cold,
And bind with bright bands my glossy locks
And buy me chains of gold;
And give me meekly to do my will
The hapless sons of men:
But the wild goat bounding on the barren hill
Droops in the grassy pen.
(First appears in "Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems" [1920]. Reprinted as "The Wild Goat" in "Harlem Shadows" [1922])