There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded : 'Why?'
The people told him:
'Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
'Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.''
Sadly the people added:
'There are no violets here.'

(C) Stephen Crane
03/09/2017


Best Poems of Stephen Crane

• Behold, The Grave Of A Wicked Man
• There Was, Before Me,
• In Heaven
• When The Prophet, A Complacent Fat Man
• What Says The Sea, Little Shell
• Supposing That I Should Have The Courage
• Tell Me Why
• Courage
• -scaped
• And You Love Me
• In A Lonely Place
• There Was A Man Who Lived A Life Of Fire
• Tell Brave Deeds Of War
• Legends
• Ancestry
• Intrigue
• My Cross!
• The Ocean Said To Me Once,
• Voices
• I Walked In A Desert
• Once There Was A Man