Black Riders Came from the Sea
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From 1895 Collection
Stephen Crane's 'Black Riders Came From The Sea' appears in his 1895 collection Black Riders and Other Lines. The brief, striking lyric belongs to that book’s experimental phase, where Crane favored compressed, epigrammatic lines and stark, symbolic imagery. Presented without traditional narrative or moralizing, the poem condenses an apocalyptic vision—an invasion figure for sin—into a few vivid sounds and actions, reflecting Crane's move toward modern, imagistic brevity.
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