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Biography of Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)


Stephen Crane was the last of 14 children born to a Methodist minister who died when he was nine. As a child he moved three times in the New York area. Crane never cared much for schooling, but he did attend Syracuse University - although only for one semester, and his most noteworthy accomplishments were performed on the baseball field. He lived the down-and-out life of a penniless artist who became well known as a poet, journalist, social critic and realist. His contemoraries noted him as being an "original" in his field of work.

War and other forms of physical and mental violence fascinate Crane. He began writing for newspapers in 1891 when he settled in New York where he developed his powers as an observer of psychological and social reality. After he wrote Red Badge of Courage, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24, he was hired as a reporter in the American West and Mexico. At the age of 27, Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida and got married. While in Jacksonville, his boat The Commodore sank off the coast and he wrote about the harrowing adventure in The New York Press. Crane covered the Greco-Turkish War and later settled in England where he made friends with famous writers of the time including H.G. Wells and Henry James. He later covered the Spanish-American War for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. During the last few years of his life, he began writing furiously because he was in debt and suffering from tuberculosis. He later died while he was in Germany.

The poetry Crane produced was published in War is Kind & Other Lines (1899) and posthumously in The Black Riders & Other Lines (1905). The poems from these two collections are all published below.



95 Poems written by Stephen Crane

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The Black Riders & Other Lines

1. Black riders came from the sea.
2. Three little birds in a row
3. In the desert
4. Yes, I have a thousand tongues
5. Once there came a man
6. God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. 1 Comment
7. Mystic shadow, bending near me,
8. I looked here
9. I stood upon a high place,
10. Should the wide world roll away,
11. In a lonely place,
12. "And the sins of the fathers shall be"
13. If there is a witness to my little life,
14. There was crimson clash of war.
15. "Tell brave deeds of war."
16. Charity thou art a lie, 1 Comment
17. There were many who went in huddled procession
18. In heaven
19. A god in wrath
20. A learned man came to me once
21. There was, before me
22. Once I saw mountains angry
23. Places among the stars
24. I saw a man pursuing the horizon
25. Behold, the grave of a wicked man
26. There was set before me a mighty hill
27. A youth in apparel that glittered
28. "Truth," said a traveller
29. Behold, from the land of the farther suns
30. Supposing that I should have the courage
31. Many workmen
32. Two or three angels
33. There was one I met upon the road
34. I stood upon a highway
35. A man saw a ball of gold in the sky
36. I met a seer
37. On the horizon the peaks assembled
38. The ocean said to me once
39. The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds
40. And you love me
41. Love walked alone
42. I walked in a desert
43. There came whisperings in the winds
44. I was in the darkness
45. Tradition, thou art for suckling children
46. Many red devils ran from my heart
47. "Think as I think," said a man 1 Comment
48. Once there was a man
49. I stood musing in a black world
50. You say you are holy
51. A man went before a strange God
52. Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
53. Blustering God
54. "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
55. A man toiled on a burning road
56. A man feared that he might find an assassin
57. With eye and with gesture
58. The sage lectured brilliantly
59. Walking in the sky
60. Upon the road of my life
61. There was a man and a woman
62. There was a man who lived a life of fire
63. There was a great cathedral
64. Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground
65. Once, I knew a fine song
66. If I should cast off this tattered coat
67. God lay dead in heaven
68. A spirit sped

War is Kind & Other Lines

1. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
2. "What says the sea, little shell?"
3. To the maiden
4. A little ink more or less!
5. "Have you ever made a just man?"
6. I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
7. "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,"
8. Fast rode the knight
9. Forth went the candid man
10. You tell me this is God?
11. On the desert
12. A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
13. The wayfarer,
14. A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
15. Once a man clambering to the housetops
16. There was a man with tongue of wood
17. The successful man has thrust himself
18. In the night
19. The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
20. The impact of a dollar upon the heart
21. A man said to the universe: 2 Comments
22. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
23. There was a land where lived no violets.
24. Ay, workman, make me a dream,
25. Each small gleam was a voice,
26. The trees in the garden rained flowers.
27. When a people reach the top of a hill,

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