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Subject: HORSE RACING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride
Last Line: "of walker's fight with thunderbolt, that ride for life and death"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;horse Racing;hunting; "dead, The;hunters;


A FOLK SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hitch up honey for the
Subject(s): Horse Racing


AT GALWAY RACES (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There where the course is
Last Line: That ride upon horses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


AT GALWAY RACES (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


AT GALWAY RACES (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is
Last Line: And we find hearteners among men %that ride upon horses
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


BARBER, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wield the razor, sling hot towels and talk
Last Line: I love life. Who doesn't?
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing


BOLD CHAMPION, by JEAN RASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bold champion could stir your racing blood
Last Line: She'd won a derby only yesterday.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


DERBY GLASS, by SARAH GORHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when the last horse trembled in
Last Line: Make it to the gate, nurse a coke?
Subject(s): Horse Racing


GALWAY RACES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's there you'll see confectioners with sugar sticks and dainties
Last Line: "but faite and hospitality, inducing a fresh acquaintance"
Subject(s): Horse Racing


GWINE TO RUN ALL NIGHT, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De camptown ladies sing dis song
Last Line: Oh! Doo dah day!
Variant Title(s): De Camptown Races
Subject(s): Horse Racing


HOME YEARNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're writing to-night to the old, old home
Last Line: And we're wiring for carfare home!
Subject(s): Gambling; Homesickness; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


HOW SALVATOR WON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone
Last Line: And hang out 2.05 in the gaze of the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the famous trotting-ground
Last Line: A horse can trot, for all he's old.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


JANGLING JINGLES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We bet on a champion boxer--
Last Line: And hyrant—oh, he's running yet!
Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Gambling; Horse Racing; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Wagering; Betting


LEITH RACES, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In july month, ae bonny morn
Last Line: Wi' straiks thir days!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Summer


LOOSE LUNATICS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The baseball fan gets up and loudly yowls--
Last Line: He's dippy!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Baseball; Football; Horse Racing; Sports


LORD HIPPO, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord hippo suffered fearful loss
Last Line: To say that he backed the winner!
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


LOVE SONNET OF A TRACK FIEND, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Baby, I know you think that I
Last Line: I'll make the rest look just like also-rans!
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Track Athletics; Wagering; Betting; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years ago at aqueduct, my friend joe, a marxist, bed on a horse
Last Line: Gift, a nag that for a while gave some of us hope, like marxism in %the third
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Luck


MONEENEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the tale of one who lived and suffered years ago
Last Line: And a native boy who gave his life when safety was in sight
Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;heroes;heroines;


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Splendid in destiny
Last Line: Unrocked in realms of peace
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUS, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water is best, but gold blazing like fire
Last Line: With victors, foremost in every skull among the hellenes
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Best of all things is water; but gold, like a gleaming fire
Last Line: Let it be mine to stand beside you %in victory, for my skil l at the forefront of the hellenes
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as water is most excellent, while god, like fire flaming
Last Line: And be foremost in the lore of song among hellenes in every land
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. PRAISE OF HIERON'S OLYMPIC VICTORY, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each element to water yields
Last Line: Proclaim'd unrival'd in my song.
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


ON A RACE-HORSE, by GIROLAMO PRETI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of the air, rival of winds when high
Last Line: But that he knows thy speed would shorten day.
Subject(s): Horse Racing


POLYHYMNIA: FRAGMENTS, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These prov'd themselves from pegasus derived
Last Line: Perchance, as youthful now as I was then.
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Knights & Knighthood; Youth


PYTHIAN ODES: 2. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magnificent city, syracuse, precinct of ares
Last Line: Is a slippery path. May I %please and consort with noble men
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


RIGHT AT THE TRACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon shines bright upon the trampled course
Last Line: You broke, too, pal? Then let's start walking home!
Subject(s): Horse Racing


SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As we drove one day through the lignum swamp
Last Line: Is the old grey solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Animals; Horse Racing; Horses


THE GRAVE OF A NIGGER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'yes, it's true that's the grave of a nigger"
Last Line: Where foam-waters gurgled their way.'
Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;family Life;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;relatives;heroes;heroines;


THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's another sorry tale about class in america, I'm sure
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Fear; Panic; Fire


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: JULY. GOODWORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the high breezes of the goodwood down
Subject(s): Goodwood, England; Archer, Fred (1857-1886); Horse Racing


THE JUDGE'S DECISION, by J. W. KEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas years ago on the barcoo when flashy jockey clubs
Last Line: "der vinner of dis (hic) handicap, he vos (hic) a tampd piebald!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferres, Arthur
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Judges


THE TIME TO GET READY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jockey, little horse-jockey, riding to the race
Last Line: "expecting to get ready in the middle of the strife."
Subject(s): Horse Racing


THE TIP, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eager tout, while prowling for the news
Last Line: That wretched animal is running yet!
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


THE TOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are a hundred ways in which he strives to
Last Line: And you can trust him—sure you can—just one time out of fifty!
Subject(s): Duplicity; Gambling; Horse Racing; Deceit; Wagering; Betting


THREE ELEGIES: 1. EARL SCHIEB 1907-1992, by NOLA GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last frieday, earl schieb's horse, 'cause I'm leaving
Last Line: That possibility of any car, any color
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horse Racing; Horses


TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by
Subject(s): Horse Racing


TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by
Last Line: And you may have seen a monkey on a greyhound. 'but tom fool...'
Subject(s): Horse Racing


WHEN SANDE WAS OUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Sande down, and laid upon the shelf?
Last Line: A splendid rider, and a gentleman!
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Jockeys; Sande, Earl (1898-1968)


WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it
Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants


WRITTEN AT WINCHESTER ON TUESSAY THE 15TH JULY 1817, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winchester races first took their beginning
Last Line: The curse upon venta is july in showers
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Weather