When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands,
But the scene is grey."

(C) Stephen Crane
04/03/2017


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