Today’s Poem: War is Kind

Stephen Crane’s fading

Howard Pyle, The Battle of Nashville, 1906 (Minnesota State Capitol)

War is Kind

by Stephen Crane

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. 
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky 
And the affrighted steed ran on alone, 
Do not weep. 
War is kind. 

      Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, 
      Little souls who thirst for fight, 
      These …