Lyric Poem · Nature
"I have heard the sunset song of the birches,"
1"I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
2A white melody in the silence,
3I have seen a quarrel of the pines.
4At nightfall
5The little grasses have rushed by me
6With the wind men.
7These things have I lived," quoth the maniac,
8"Possessing only eyes and ears.
9But you —
10You don green spectacles before you look at roses."
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“"I have heard the sunset song of the birches,"” by Stephen Crane — quilloak.com/poems/i-have-heard-the-sunset-song-of-the-birches
Quick facts
- Poem
- "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,"
- Poet
- Stephen Crane
- Length
- 10 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Short
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- Author record
- Stephen Crane1871–1900
- Source record
- PoetryDB"I have heard the sunset song of the birches," by stephen-crane, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 70d404f9f37999c8…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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