by Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
Fast rode the knight
Language: English
[Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, "To save my lady!"]1 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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"To save my lady!" Fast rode the knight With spurs hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, "To save my lady! To save my lady!"
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900), no title, appears in War Is Kind and Other Lines, no. 8 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Joshua Alan Lindsay (b. 1988), "[III]. The good knight", 2008-9, first performed 2009 [ tenor or high voice and piano ], from Of snow, ice, burning sand, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-09-17
Line count: 16
Word count: 79