Poem: “Fast rode the knight” by Stephen Crane

War is Kind & Other Lines (1905)

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American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines
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Forth went the candid man > > >

Fast rode the knight

Fast rode the knight
With spurs, hot and reeking,
Ever waving an eager sword,
“To save my lady!”
Fast rode the knIght,
And leaped from saddle to war.
Men of steel flickered and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight’s good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
. . . . .
A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.
A horse
Dead at foot of castle wall.

< < < I have heard the sunset song of the birches
Forth went the candid man > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines

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