English Poetry. Stephen Crane. Supposing that I should have the courage. Стивен Крейн.

Stephen Crane (Стивен Крейн)

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Supposing that I should have the courage
To let a red sword of virtue
Plunge into my heart,
Letting to the weeds of the ground
My sinful blood,
What can you offer me?
A gardened castle?
A flowery kingdom?

What? A hope?
Then hence with your red sword of virtue.

Stephen Crane’s other poems:

1. With eye and with gesture
2. The ocean said to me once
3. Tell brave deeds of war
4. There was a man who lived a life of fire
5. When the prophet, a complacent fat man

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