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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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[V. The wind that waves the blossoms]

The wind that waves the blossoms
Sang, sang, sang from age to age.
The flowers were made curious by this joy.
“Oh, wind,” they said, “why sing you at your labour,
While we, pink beneficiaries, sing not,
But idle, idle, idle from age to age?”
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