Lyric Poem · Childhood
Tradition, thou art for suckling children
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“Tradition, thou art for suckling children” by Stephen Crane — quilloak.com/poems/tradition-thou-art-for-suckling-children
Quick facts
- Poem
- Tradition, thou art for suckling children
- Poet
- Stephen Crane
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Childhood, Sad, Short
Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Stephen Crane1871–1900
- Source record
- PoetryDBTradition, thou art for suckling children 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 27dd658786a58d05…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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