Stephen Maria Crane's Poetry, by popularity

• Ancestry

  ONCE I saw mountains angry,
  And ranged in battle-front.

  10 lines
• Voices

  EACH small gleam was a voice
  -A lantern voice-

  17 lines
• There were many who went in huddled procession

  There were many who went in huddled procession,
  They knew not whither;

  8 lines
• Once a man clambering to the housetops

  Once a man clambering to the housetops
  Appealed to the heavens.

  7 lines
• The Man

  Aman said to the universe,
  "Sir, I exist!"

  5 lines
• There was a great cathedral

  There was a great cathedral.
  To solemn songs,

  10 lines
• With eye and with gesture

  With eye and with gesture
  You say you are holy.

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Walking in the sky,

  Walking in the sky,
  A man in strange black garb

  7 lines, 1 comment
• The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds

  The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds;
  The leaden thunders crashed.

  12 lines
• I Stood Musing in a Black World

  I stood musing in a black world,
  Not knowing where to direct my feet.

  40 lines, 1 comment
• The Sins of the Fathers

  "And the sins of the fathers shall be
  visited upon the heads of the children,

  10 lines, 1 comment
• Tradition, thou art for suckling children

  Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
  Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;

  5 lines
• If I should cast off this tattered coat,

  If I should cast off this tattered coat,
  And go free into the mighty sky;

  6 lines, 1 comment
• ’Scaped

  Once, I knew a fine song,
  — It is true, believe me —

  10 lines, 1 comment
• Why do you strive for greatness, fool?

  Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
  Go pluck a bough and wear it.

  9 lines, 1 comment
• Little Birds of the Night

  LITTLE birds of the night
  Aye, they have much to tell

  10 lines, 1 comment
• On the horizon the peaks assembled

  On the horizon the peaks assembled;
  And as I looked,

  5 lines
• Legends

  I
  A MAN builded a bugle for the storms to blow.

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Each Small Gleam Was a Voice

  Each small gleam was a voice,
  A lantern voice --

  17 lines, 3 comments
• Should the wide world roll away

    Should the wide world roll away
    Leaving black terror

  6 lines, 2 comments
• There came whisperings in the winds

  There came whisperings in the winds:
  "Good-bye! Good-bye!"

  10 lines
• You say you are holy,

  You say you are holy,
  And that

  5 lines, 1 comment
• There was a man with tongue of wood

  There was a man with tongue of wood
  Who essayed to sing,

  8 lines
• There was a man and a woman

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  There was a man and a woman

  23 lines
• Many workmen

  Many workmen
  Built a huge ball of masonry

  11 lines
• A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls

  A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
  A forgotten sky of bashful blue.

  13 lines, 2 comments
• Friend, Your White Beard Sweeps The Ground

  Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground.
  Why do you stand, expectant?

  10 lines, 1 comment
• When a people reach the top of a hill,

  When a people reach the top of a hill,
  Then does God lean toward them,

  33 lines
• To the maiden

  To the maiden
  The sea was blue meadow,

  10 lines
• When the prophet, a complacent fat man

  When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
  Arrived at the mountain-top,

  6 lines, 1 comment

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