by Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
A row of thick pillars
Language: English
A row of thick pillars Consciously bracing for the weight Of a vanished roof The bronze light of sunset strikes through them, And over a floor made for slow rites. There is no sound of singing But, aloft, a great and terrible bird Is watching a cur, beaten and cut, That crawls to the cool shadows of the pillars To die.
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) [author's text not yet checked 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 Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961), "A row of thick pillars", op. 11 no. 3 (1983) [ baritone and piano or harp, 2 horns, and strings ], from Three Poems of Stephen Crane, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2022-06-15
Line count: 10
Word count: 61