English poem
The ocean said to me once
by Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
The ocean said to me once, "Look! Yonder on the shore Is a woman, weeping. I have watched her. Go you and tell her this -- Her lover I have laid In cool green hall. There is wealth of golden sand And pillars, coral-red; Two white fish stand guard at his bier.
"Tell her this And more -- That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With a surplus of toys."
More by Stephen Crane
- The Black Riders & Other Lines/"Truth," said a traveller
- The Black Riders & Other Lines/Black riders came from the sea.
- The Black Riders & Other Lines/Once There Came a Man
- The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
- The successful man has thrust himself
- The trees in the garden rained flowers.
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a man who lived a life of fire