Author:Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane
(1871–1900)

Stephen Crane

Works

Novels and Novellas

• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) [ext scan]
• The Red Badge of Courage

  1895 first book edition

  1896 edition: (transcription project)

• George's Mother (1896)
• The Third Violet (1896-97)
• The Monster (1898)
• The O'Ruddy with Robert Barr (1903) ^[1]

Stories, Sketches, and Journalism

• The Black Dog [ext scan]
• The Blue Hotel
• The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
• A Dark-Brown Dog
• A Desertion
• An Episode of War
• An Experiment in Luxury
• An Experiment in Misery
• The Five White Mice
• Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure
• "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen"
• The Great Boer Trek
• A Great Mistake
• Heard on the Street Election Night
• His New Mittens (1898)
• The Judgement of the Sage
• The Kicking Twelfth
• The Little Regiment
• The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins
• A Man and Some Others
• Manacled
• Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo (1899)
• The Men in the Storm
• An Ominous Baby
• The Open Boat [ext scan]
• The Revenge of the Adolphus
• The Scotch Express (1899)
• The Second Generation
• A Self-Made Man
• The Sergeant's Private Madhouse
• The Shrapnel of their Friends
• A Tent in Agony (1892)
• Twelve O'Clock
• The Upturned Face
• The Veteran
• The Woof of Thin Red Threads

Whilomville Stories

• "Showin' Off"
• A Little Pilgrim
• Lynx-Hunting
• The Angel-Child
• The Carriage-Lamps
• Shame
• Making an Orator
• The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers
• The Fight
• The Knife
• The Lover and the Tell-Tale
• The Stove
• The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps

Poetry

• Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind
• If There is a Witness to My Little Life
• I Met a Seer
• In the Desert
• I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
• I Stood Upon a High Place
• I Stood Upon a Highway
• I Was in the Darkness
• A Man Said to the Universe
• A Newspaper is a Collection of Half-Injustices
• Once There Came a Man
• Places Among the Stars
• Should the Wide World Roll Away
• Supposing That I Should Have the Courage
• There was a Man and a Woman
• To the Maiden
• ‘Truth,’ Said a Traveller
• Well, Then I Hate Thee

The Black Riders & Other Lines

1. Black riders came from the sea.
2. Three little birds in a row
3. In the desert
4. Yes, I have a thousand tongues
5. Once there came a man
6. God fashioned the ship of the world carefully
7. Mystic shadow, bending near me,
8. I looked here
9. I stood upon a high place,
10. Should the wide world roll away,
11. In a lonely place,
12. "And the sins of the fathers shall be"
13. If there is a witness to my little life,
14. There was a crimson clash of war.
15. "Tell brave deeds of war."
16. Charity thou art a lie,
17. There were many who went in huddled procession
18. In heaven
19. A god in wrath
20. A learned man came to me once
21. There was, before me
22. Once I saw mountains angry
23. Places among the stars
24. I saw a man pursuing the horizon
25. Behold, the grave of a wicked man
26. There was set before me a mighty hill
27. A youth in apparel that glittered
28. "Truth," said a traveller
29. Behold, from the land of the farther suns
30. Supposing that I should have the courage
31. Many workmen
32. Two or three angels
33. There was one I met upon the road
34. I stood upon a highway
35. A man saw a ball of gold in the sky
36. I met a seer
37. On the horizon the peaks assembled
38. The ocean said to me once
39. The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds
40. And you love me
41. Love walked alone
42. I walked in a desert
43. There came whisperings in the winds
44. I was in the darkness
45. Tradition, thou art for suckling children
46. Many red devils ran from my heart
47. "Think as I think," said a man
48. Once there was a man
49. I stood musing in a black world
50. You say you are holy
51. A man went before a strange God
52. Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
53. Blustering God
54. "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
55. A man toiled on a burning road
56. A man feared that he might find an assassin
57. With eye and with gesture
58. The sage lectured brilliantly
59. Walking in the sky
60. Upon the road of my life
61. There was a man and a woman
62. There was a man who lived a life of fire
63. There was a great cathedral
64. Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground
65. Once, I knew a fine song
66. If I should cast off this tattered coat
67. God lay dead in heaven
68. A spirit sped

War is Kind & Other Lines

1. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
2. "What says the sea, little shell?"
3. To the maiden
4. A little ink more or less!
5. "Have you ever made a just man?"
6. I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
7. "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,"
8. Fast rode the knight
9. Forth went the candid man
10. You tell me this is God?
11. On the desert
12. A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
13. The wayfarer,
14. A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
15. Once a man clambering to the housetops
16. The successful man has thrust himself
17. In the Night
18. The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
19. The impact of a dollar upon the heart
20. A man said to the universe:
21. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
22. There was a land where lived no violets.
23. Ay, workman, make me a dream,
24. Each small gleam was a voice,
25. The trees in the garden rained flowers.
26. When a people reach the top of a hill,

Collections

• "Men, Women and Boats" - edited and with an introduction by Vincent Starrett - at Project Gutenberg

Works about Crane

• "Crane, Stephen," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

1. Completed by Robert Barr after his death