Free Verse · Life
There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire
by Stephen Crane · 1895
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Quick facts
- Poem
- There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire
- Poet
- Stephen Crane
- Published
- 1895
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse, Short Poems
- Themes
- Life, Short
Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Stephen Crane1871–1900
- Source record
- PoetryDBThere Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire by stephen-crane, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1895
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 2542daf294450024…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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