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Subject: CAVALRY
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First Line: There in the meadow-land
Last Line: Over belgrade!
Subject(s): Army - Austria; Cavalry; World War I; First World War


BEYOND THE STARS I SEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gaze into thy heavens, lord
Last Line: The christ of calvary.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Future Life; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


CALVARY SONG, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our bugles sound gayly. To horse and away
Last Line: And our country, our country will never forget!
Subject(s): Cavalry; War


CAVALRY CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cavalry charge!' not a man of them shrank
Subject(s): Cavalry


CAVALRY CHARGE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark! The rattling roll of the musketeers
Subject(s): Cavalry; Patriotism


CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands
Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day


CAVALRY SCOUT, by EDMUNDUS SCOTUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spare man nor steed, use utmost speed; before the sun goes down
Subject(s): Cavalry


EL MAGHARA, by EDWIN GERARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out east on the sands of distraction that dip to the peep of the sun
Last Line: Then back over razor-like edges we trekked through the desert again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy
Subject(s): Cavalry; War


HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies
Last Line: No horses I own / no horses
Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge


HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies
Last Line: No horses, I own %no horses
Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge


KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun had set
Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


MADONNA, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God made her on his loom of time
Last Line: The echoes of a ceaseless song.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Wales; Women; Welshmen; Welshwomen


MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary mother, pray for one
Last Line: Kneeling before the mercy gate.
Subject(s): Catholics; Cavalry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary


OBSEQUIES OF STUART, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We could not pause, while yet the noontide air
Last Line: In victory careering!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays
Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul?
Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology


PALESTINE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O land, a-stoop with penitential years
Last Line: O god! To kneel upon the self-same earth!
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice


PRAYER TO THE CRUCIFIX, by MOSSEN JUAN TALLANTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almighty god, unchangeable
Last Line: Salvation in this grief's confession: %memento mei
Subject(s): Cavalry; Prayer; Religion; Salvation


RIDING WITH KILPATRICK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn peered through the pines as we dashed
Last Line: Those who rode with kilpatrick can never forget!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson (1836-1881); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of


SOUTH OF GAZA, by EDWIN GERARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fared we afield in the gathering dusk from the lines in the rail-head camp
Last Line: The swift hoofs sounded a roll of doom to the turkish arms that night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy
Subject(s): Cavalry; War


THE ASPEN; A LEGEND OF PALESTINE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O aspen, why shiver thus in affright?
Last Line: O brother, speak never lightly of me.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Palestine


THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward
Last Line: Noble six hundred!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians


THE CHRIST OF SAN BUENA VENTURA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ghastly christ on rude cross lifted, while behind the / clear-carved face
Last Line: Christ was raised from out the shadows—love for him our common joy.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Missions & Missionaries; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


THE GREY HORSE TROOP, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All alone on the hillside
Last Line: Drink to the troop that never shall die!
Subject(s): Cavalry; Geronimo (1829-1909); Native Americans - Wars


THE HORSE THAT DIED FOR ME, by EDWIN GERARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: They gave me a fiery horse to groom, and I rode him on parade
Last Line: And the white sand surges down to hide the bones of a trooper's hack.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy
Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Horses; Sacrifices; War


THE NORMAN HORSE-SHOE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red glows the forge in stirguil's bounds
Last Line: Save of the fairies' emerald ring.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Horseshoes; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE TROPPER'S DITTY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boot, boot into the stirrup, lads
Last Line: God gives to guard the throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Cavalry


THE WAYS OF GOD, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lad once dreamed he would be king
Last Line: And it exalted him.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Galilee, Palestine; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology


THE WONDROUS PEARL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wondrous pearl of greatest price
Last Line: Bought with a love so great?
Subject(s): Cavalry; Love; Pearls


TWO CROWNS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king of glory
Last Line: Is king of kings.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see
Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology


WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling
Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much.
Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War


ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard
Last Line: To death or victory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles