English Poetry. Stephen Crane. There was a man who lived a life of fire. Стивен Крейн.

Stephen Crane (Стивен Крейн)

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There was a man who lived a life of fire.
Even upon the fabric of time,
Where purple becomes orange
And orange purple,
This life glowed,
A dire red stain, indelible;
Yet when he was dead,
He saw that he had not lived.

Stephen Crane’s other poems:

1. With eye and with gesture
2. When the prophet, a complacent fat man
3. The ocean said to me once
4. To the maiden
5. Tell brave deeds of war

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