English Poetry. Stephen Crane. There was a man with tongue of wood. Стивен Крейн.

Stephen Crane (Стивен Крейн)

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There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.

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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