"A Learned Man Came To Me Once" by Stephen Crane

A learned man came to me once.
He said, "I know the way, -- come."
And I was overjoyed at this.
Together we hastened.


Soon, too soon, were we
Where my eyes were useless,
And I knew not the ways of my feet.
I clung to the hand of my friend;
But at last he cried, "I am lost."

--Stephen Crane

Practicing Latin - Name These Poems!

Eremo ambulavi
Et vocavi:
"Heu, Domini, capisse me illo loco!"
Vox inquit, "Est non eremus."
Vocavi, "Autem, sed -
Arena, calor, vacuus horizon."
Vox inquit, "Est non eremus."
--
Viridis primus naturae aurum est
Arduissimus color ad tentandum
Priscum folium est flos
Sed vix horam
Tum folium ad folium concidit
Sic Eden ad dolorem cecidit
Sic aurora ad diem ruit [/defluit]
Nihil aurum commorari possit.
--
Mea somnia de agrum longum sunt
Et sangiunem et fumum et glandes
Illic in eorum sepulcros mei socii sunt
In sepulcum meum non sum.

Ego aeque commercium hominis condocefacio
Et rudimentum cantavi palam
Sed cum dedidicerim et curraverim
Memoraverunt et remanserunt.
---
Hiatum in mentem meam sensi
Tamquam cerebellum scidisset
Conatus sum componere comissuram ad comissuram
Sed compellere non possum eos ut concurrant.
Cogitatio avorsa jugare conatus sum
Ad cogitationem priorem
Series retextuerunt longe
Similis pilae super coaxationem.

(Erika and Heather, if I did any of the above wrong, could you tell me where? I have my suspicions about the last one.)

"I walked in a desert" by Stephen Crane

I walked in a desert
And I cried:
"Ah, God, take me from this place!"
A voice said, "It is no desert."
I cried: "Well, but -
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon."
A voice said, "It is no desert."

--Stephen Crane

"I saw a man pursuing the horizon" by Stephen Crane

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never--"

"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.

--Stephen Crane