The Black Riders and Other Lines

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The Black Riders and Other Lines
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Book cover
Author Stephen Crane
Country United States
Language English
Genre Poetry collections
Published 1895 (Copeland and Day)
Preceded by The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Followed by Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
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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

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  • 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

See also

References

  1. McGann, Jerome J. 1993. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton University Press. pp. 92–93