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It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

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Gone, Golden, Midst

Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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Let me into the darkness again.

Stephen Crane

Darkness, Let Me

Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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Doubtless there are other roads.

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Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

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Men, Land, White

Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

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Eye, Trying, Answers

Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

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Rain, Clouds, Rivers

Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.212, Library of America

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A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

Stephen Crane

Eye, Men, Hands

Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

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Struggle, Littles, Tiny

Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

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Father, War, Yellow

Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

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Fate, Soldier, Enemy

Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

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Men, Literature, World

Stephen Crane, Joseph Katz (1970). “Stephen Crane in the West and Mexico”

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If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

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Sea, Land, Names

Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.898, Library of America

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A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Stephen Crane

Mysterious, Fraternity, Danger

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When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

Stephen Crane

Night, Men, Wind

David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

Stephen Crane

War, Hands, Lovers

Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Stephen Crane

Wise, Men, Assassins

Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage.

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Said, New Roads, Rate

Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1304, Library of America

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Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

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Strong, Lying, Home

Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

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Lying, War, Fighting

Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

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Lying, Men, Horizon

Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Dover Publications

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In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

Stephen Crane

Rain, Book, Broads

David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

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Angel, Two, Long

Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Dover Publications

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Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Stephen Crane

Art, Children, Men

Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

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Lying, Men, Eagles

Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.

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Men, Thinking, Play

Stephen Crane, Anthony Matthew Mellors, Fiona Robertson (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.77, Oxford Paperbacks

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Died: June 5, 1900
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