English Poetry. Stephen Crane. There was a great cathedral. Стивен Крейн.

Stephen Crane (Стивен Крейн)

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There was a great cathedral.
To solemn songs,
A white procession
Moved toward the altar.
The chief man there
Was erect, and bore himself proudly.
Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing frightened glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.

Stephen Crane’s other poems:

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

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