The Black Riders & Other Lines


 * 1) /Black riders came from the sea./
 * 2) /Three little birds in a row/
 * 3) /In the Desert/
 * 4) /Yes, I have a thousand tongues/
 * 5) /Once There Came a Man/
 * 6) /God fashioned the ship of the world carefully/
 * 7) /Mystic shadow, bending near me,/
 * 8) /I looked here/
 * 9) /I stood upon a high place,/
 * 10) /Should the wide world roll away,/
 * 11) /In a lonely place,/
 * 12) /"And the sins of the fathers shall be"/
 * 13) /If there is a witness to my little life,/
 * 14) /There was a crimson clash of war./
 * 15) /"Tell brave deeds of war."/
 * 16) /Charity thou art a lie,/
 * 17) /There were many who went in huddled procession/
 * 18) /In heaven/
 * 19) /A god in wrath/
 * 20) /A learned man came to me once/
 * 21) /There was, before me/
 * 22) /Once I saw mountains angry/
 * 23) /Places Among the Stars/
 * 24) /I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon/
 * 25) /Behold, the grave of a wicked man/
 * 26) /There was set before me a mighty hill/
 * 27) /A youth in apparel that glittered/
 * 28) /"Truth," said a traveller/
 * 29) /Behold, from the land of the farther suns/
 * 30) /Supposing that I should have the courage/
 * 31) /Many workmen/
 * 32) /Two or three angels/
 * 33) /There was one I met upon the road/
 * 34) /I Stood upon a Highway/
 * 35) /A man saw a ball of gold in the sky/
 * 36) /I Met a Seer/
 * 37) /On the horizon the peaks assembled/
 * 38) /The ocean said to me once/
 * 39) /The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds/
 * 40) /And you love me/
 * 41) /Love walked alone/
 * 42) /I walked in a desert/
 * 43) /There came whisperings in the winds/
 * 44) /I was in the Darkness/
 * 45) /Tradition, thou art for suckling children/
 * 46) /Many red devils ran from my heart/
 * 47) /"Think as I think," said a man/
 * 48) /Once there was a man/
 * 49) /I stood musing in a black world/
 * 50) /You say you are holy/
 * 51) /A man went before a strange God/
 * 52) /Why do you strive for greatness, fool?/
 * 53) /Blustering God/
 * 54) /"It was wrong to do this," said the angel/
 * 55) /A man toiled on a burning road/
 * 56) /A man feared that he might find an assassin/
 * 57) /With eye and with gesture/
 * 58) /The sage lectured brilliantly/
 * 59) /Walking in the sky/
 * 60) /Upon the road of my life/
 * 61) /There was a Man and a Woman/
 * 62) /There was a man who lived a life of fire/
 * 63) /There was a great cathedral/
 * 64) /Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground/
 * 65) /Once, I knew a fine song/
 * 66) /If I should cast off this tattered coat/
 * 67) /God lay dead in heaven/
 * 68) /A spirit sped/