English Poetry. Stephen Crane. There was a land where lived no violets. Стивен Крейн.

Stephen Crane (Стивен Крейн)

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There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded : ”Why?”
The people told him:
”Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
’Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.’”
Sadly the people added:
”There are no violets here.”

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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