High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Contained in Hart Crane's first collection of poems, White Buildings (1926), 'Voyages' was composed across six years (1921 -1926), with sections published as early as 1923. Containing one of Crane's most famous lyrics, 'Voyages: II,' this love-cycle of six poems was largely fueled by his love affair with Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant mariner.Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot,