Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As from the dorset shore I travelled home
Last Line: He floated upwards, and regained the steep.
Subject(s): Animals; Carving (arts); Horses


As from the Dorset shore I travelled home,
I saw the charger of the Wiltshire wold;
A far-seen figure, stately to behold,
Whose groom the shepherd is, the hoe his comb;
His wizard-spell even sober daylight owned;
That night I dreamed him into living will;
He neighed - and, straight, the chalk poured down the hill;
He shook himself, and all beneath was stoned;
Hengist and Horsa shouted o'er my sleep,
Like fierce Achilles; while that storm-blanched horse
Sprang to the van of all the Saxon force,
And pushed the Britons to the Western deep;
Then, dream-wise, as it were a thing of course,
He floated upwards, and regained the steep.





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