Fast rode the knight - A poem by Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane - Fast rode the knight

Fast rode the knight
With spurs, hot and reeking,
Ever waving an eager sword,
"To save my lady!"
Fast rode the knIght,
And leaped from saddle to war.
Men of steel flickered and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
.     .     .     .     .
A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.
A horse
Dead at foot of castle wall.

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Poet: Stephen Crane Poem: 8. Fast rode the knight Volume: War is Kind & Other Lines Year: Published/Written in 1899 Poem of the Day: Oct 21 2003 Comment 13 of 13, added on January 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 AM. If I climbed to the top of a wall, I would wave to all my friends too. I have a really big wall that separates my castle from the lowly peasant scum that plod my fields. I love Brunei, except for the peasants that throw plod clumps at my castle. So today i will wave again and smile--secretly hoping to throw my clumps at them. Peasants rot! Sultan Abihamed from Brunei Darussalam, Negara Comment 12 of 13, added on December 12th, 2006 at 9:37 AM. Steven Cranes iz da b0mb! I like pie. Give me pie. I ride knights fast to get my pie. who ate my pie? I like snow. Do you like snow? My mom ate yellow snow. Go Cranes! Andrew Whalen from Iran Comment 11 of 13, added on May 31st, 2006 at 9:28 PM. I am normally not the type to post comments on a page like this, so I'll be brief. I believe that the idioticy disgorged by the other comments is exactly the kind of ignorance that Stephen Crane highlighted in his most cynical poems. These postings are an embarrassment to both Steven Crane and the literary community. Katie from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Fast rode the knight, has received 13 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Stephen Crane with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Stephen Crane Poem: 8. Fast rode the knight Volume: War is Kind & Other Lines Year: Published/Written in 1899 Last read: May 14 2008, 1:00PM Poem of the Day: Oct 21 2003 Viewed 110276 times. Added on May 31st, 2006 at 9:28 PM.

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