Fast rode the knight by Stephen Crane
I’m reading The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and it’s about the murder of a knight 500 years ago. Then I came across this poem, so I had to post it.
Fast rode the knight
By Stephen Crane
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.
