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The University of Virginia Edition of The Works of Stephen Crane

Volume X : Poems and Literary Remains
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

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The Black Riders and Other Lines
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War is Kind
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Uncollected Poems
 106. 
[“I'D RATHER HAVE—”]
 107. 
[Ah, haggard purse, why ope thy mouth]
 108. 
[Little birds of the night]
 109. 
[A god came to a man]
 110. 
[One came from the skies]
 111. 
[There is a grey thing that lives in the tree-tops]
 112. 
[intermingled]
 113. 
[A soldier, young in years, young in ambitions]
 114. 
[A row of thick pillars]
 115. 
[Chant you loud of punishments]
 116. 
[If you would seek a friend among men]
 117. 
[A lad and a maid at a curve in the stream]
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[“LEGENDS”]
 118. 
[I. A man builded a bugle for the storms to blow]
 119. 
[II. When the suicide arrived at the sky]
 120. 
[III. A man said: “Thou tree!”]
 121. 
[IV. A warrior stood upon a peak and defied the stars]
 122. 
[V. The wind that waves the blossoms]
 123. 
[Oh, a rare old wine ye brewed for me]
 124. 
[Tell me not in joyous numbers]
 125. 
[When a people reach the top of a hill]
 126. 
[A man adrift on a slim spar]
 127. 
[There exists the eternal fact of conflict]
 128. 
[On the brown trail]
 129. 
[Rumbling, buzzing, turning, whirling Wheels]
 130. 
[“THE BATTLE HYMN”]
 131. 
[Unwind my riddle]
 132. 
[A naked woman and a dead dwarf]
 133. 
[A grey and boiling street]
 134. 
[Bottles and bottles and bottles]
 135. 
[The patent of a lord]
 136. 
[My cross!]

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[II. When the suicide arrived at the sky]

When the suicide arrived at the sky,
The people there asked him: “Why?”
He replied: “Because no one admired me.”
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