The Choice
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" (1921). Reprinted as "The Wild Goat" in "Harlem Shadows")
(Edited and Proofread by Amardeep Singh)