The Black Riders and Other Lines
The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1895 by Copeland and Day.
It was Crane's second published volume, following Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and predating The Red Badge of Courage (1895). Its first printing was a limited run of 500 copies, with a few issued in vellum, and contained sixty-eight short poems written in Crane's sparse, unconventional style. The untitled "lines", as Crane referred to them, were differentiated by Roman numerals and written entirely in small capitals.[1]
Poetry
- Black riders came from the sea.
- Three little birds in a row
- In the Desert
- Yes, I have a thousand tongues
- Once there came a man
- God fashioned the ship of the world carefully
- Mystic shadow, bending near me,
- I looked here
- I stood upon a high place,
- Should the wide world roll away,
- In a lonely place,
- "And the sins of the fathers shall be"
- If there is a witness to my little life,
- There was a crimson clash of war.
- "Tell brave deeds of war."
- There were many who went in huddled procession
- In heaven
- A god in wrath
- A learned man came to me once
- There was, before me
- Once I saw mountains angry
- Places among the stars
- I saw a man pursuing the horizon
- Behold, the grave of a wicked man
- There was set before me a mighty hill
- A youth in apparel that glittered
- "Truth," said a traveller
- Behold, from the land of the farther suns
- Supposing that I should have the courage
- Many workmen
- Two or three angels
- There was one I met upon the road
- I stood upon a highway
- A man saw a ball of gold in the sky
- I met a seer
- On the horizon the peaks assembled
- The ocean said to me once
- The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds
- And you love me
- Love walked alone
- I walked in a desert
- There came whisperings in the winds
- I was in the darkness
- Tradition, thou art for suckling children
- Many red devils ran from my heart
- "Think as I think," said a man
- Once there was a man
- I stood musing in a black world
- You say you are holy
- A man went before a strange God
- Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
- Blustering God
- "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
- A man toiled on a burning road
- A man feared that he might find an assassin
- With eye and with gesture
- The sage lectured brilliantly
- Walking in the sky
- Upon the road of my life
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- There was a great cathedral
- Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground
- Once, I knew a fine song
- If I should cast off this tattered coat
- God lay dead in heaven
- A spirit sped
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References
- ↑ McGann, Jerome J. 1993. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton University Press. pp. 92–93
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