It was wrong t do this, said the angel (Stephen Crane Poems)
'It was wrong to do this,' said the angel.'You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like ...
'It was wrong to do this,' said the angel.'You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like ...
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;He climbed for it,And eventually he achieved it --It was clay.Now ...
Once, I knew a fine song,- It is true, believe me -It was all of birds,And I held them in ...
Black riders came from the sea.There was clang and clang of spear and shield,And clash and clash of hoof and ...
A man feared that he might find an assassin;Another that he might find a victim.One was more wise than the ...
There was a great cathedral. To solemn songs, A white procession Moved toward the altar. The chief man there Was ...
Once a man clambering to the housetops Appealed to the heavens. With strong voice he called to the deaf spheres; ...
"I have heard the sunset song of the birches, A white melody in the silence, I have seen a quarrel ...
A slant of sun on dull brown walls, A forgotten sky of bashful blue. Toward God a mighty hymn, A ...
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, The sweep of each sad lost wave, The dwindling boom ...
The sage lectured brilliantly. Before him, two images: "Now this one is a devil, And this one is me." He ...
Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind -- When he looked about him he was in ...
The impact of a dollar upon the heart Smiles warm red light, Sweeping from the hearth rosily upon the white ...
Ay, workman, make me a dream, A dream for my love. Cunningly weave sunlight, Breezes, and flowers. Let it be ...
Each small gleam was a voice, A lantern voice -- In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold. A chorus ...
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes; But no meat for men is in ...
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile, Spreads its curious opinion To ...
Once, I knew a fine song, -- It is true, believe me -- It was all of birds, And I ...
With eye and with gesture You say you are holy. I say you lie; For I did see you Draw ...
There was a land where lived no violets. A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" The people told him: "Once ...
On the horizon the peaks assembled; And as I looked, The march of the mountains began. As they marched, they ...
Behold, from the land of the farther suns I returned. And I was in a reptile-swarming place, Peopled, otherwise, with ...
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top, He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to ...
There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there ...
A man toiled on a burning road, Never resting. Once he saw a fat, stupid ass Grinning at him from ...
The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top Blood -- blood and torn grass -- Had marked the rise of ...
If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing ...
A little ink more or less! I surely can't matter? Even the sky and the opulent sea, The plains and ...
"Have you ever made a just man?" "Oh, I have made three," answered God, "But two of them are dead, ...
There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had ...
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