Stephen Crane

I looked here;
I looked there;
Nowhere could I see my love.
And -- this time --…

In a lonely place,
I encountered a sage
Who sat, all still,
Regarding a newspaper.…

With eye and with gesture
You say you are holy.
I say you lie;
For I did see you…

AH, God, the way your little finger moved
As you thrust a bare arm backward
And made play with your hair
And a comb a silly gilt comb…

I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
"Ah, God, take me from this place!"
A voice said, "It is no desert."…

Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered a radiant form.
Then his steps were eager;…

Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people…

Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
And near it, a stern spirit.There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
”No flowers for him,” he said.…

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.…

The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes --
Bloody mistakes;…

Many workmen
Built a huge ball of masonry
Upon a mountain-top.
Then they went to the valley below,…

LITTLE birds of the night
Aye, they have much to tell
Perching there in rows
Blinking at me with their serious eyes…

There was, before me,
Mile upon mile
Of snow, ice, burning sand.
And yet I could look beyond all this,…

To the maiden
The sea was blue meadow,
Alive with little froth-people
Singing.To the sailor, wrecked,…

Предо мною
На сотни миль
Простирались снега, льды, раскаленные пески.
Но я сумел заглянуть еще дальше -…

Forth went the candid man
And spoke freely to the wind --
When he looked about him he was in a far strange country.Forth went the candid man
And spoke freely to the stars --…

Однажды я увидел, как рассерженные горы
Выстроились в боевом порядке, -
Им бросил вызов маленький человечек;
Поверьте, он был ростом чуть ли не с мою ладонь.…

Я встретил человека, что гнался за Горизонтом -
Так и бежал за ним вокруг света.
Меня охватило волнение.
Я обратился к нему:…

The impact of a dollar upon the heart
Smiles warm red light,
Sweeping from the hearth rosily upon the white table,
With the hanging cool velvet shadows…

”I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
A white melody in the silence,
I have seen a quarrel of the pines.
At nightfall…

I stood musing in a black world,
Not knowing where to direct my feet.
And I saw the quick stream of men
Pouring ceaselessly,…

Когда б огромный шар земной укатился прочь,
Оставив после себя лишь черный ужас,
Беспросветную ночь,
Ни Бог, ни люди, ни место, где я окажусь, -…

Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
Then --…

If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,…