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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HORSES Matches Found: 475 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (MOJ STARY), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: My old man, says a mountain woman Last Line: And is silent Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Animals; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Newspapers A BUSH PROBLEM, by J. A. MUIRHEAD Poem Text First Line: The price I paid for darkey? Well, I'm blowed if I can tell Last Line: An' let me know exactly what he cost. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Trade A GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Horses; Parents; Parenthood A MARE, by MNASALCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bred on the dry land with the winds to race Last Line: And take her leagues of travel like a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Horses A NEW SONG OF THE MILL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In youth we sang 'the song of the mill' Last Line: And heaving booms across the bay. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry Last Line: Across the trembling firmament. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A TELL-TALE TRYST, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O who was it saddled white star last night Last Line: Who rode to the moonlight tryst! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love ADMIRAL GUARINOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The day of roncesvalles was a dismal day for you Last Line: Slay, slay, and gallop for thy life: the land of france lies there Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights And Knighthood; Prisons And Prisoners AFTER A RAINSTORM, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have come to the fence at night, Subject(s): Horses AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away! Last Line: A scalp on either side! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers ALIX, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mare alix breaks the world's trotting record one day Last Line: And I want to rub my nose against the nose of the mare alix. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ALL THE LITTLE HOOFPRINTS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased. Last Line: Drift up the canyon with the mist on their shoulders. Look in the dust at your feet, all the little Subject(s): Horses ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When you wake Last Line: All the pretty horses Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Animals; Horses AMERICANS ALL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Zebras we, a plait of black and lighter Last Line: Our legs and bodies striped, but the belly plain Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Zebras AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN, THE BUTTERWOMAN'S HORSE, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: The death of faithful dobbin I deplore Last Line: Dame jolt's brown horse, old dobbin, is no more. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters AN EVENING IN DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was while we held our races Last Line: Wade in, dandaloo!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Horses; Love; Night; Racing; Bedtime AN IDYLL OF DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On western plains, where shade is not Last Line: The atmosphere of dandaloo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing; Towns APPARITION, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-hooves whiten on the far horizon Last Line: A spume-flect pegasus of ocean's spawning. Subject(s): Animals; Horses APPROPRIATE NAMES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: James three horses breeding Last Line: Tempus, edax, rerum. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ARIEL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Stasis in darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ARIEL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stasis in darkness Last Line: Into the red %eye, the cauldron of morning Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses BABIECA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The king looked on him kindly, as on a vassal true Last Line: By any mortal but bivar, -- mount, mount again, my cid!' Variant Title(s): The Cid And Baviec Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horseback Riding; Horses; Knights And Knighthood BALLAD OF HADJI AND THE BOAR, by IAIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: As I rode over the dusty waste Subject(s): Animals; Horses BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: LAMENT OF THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The little horse 'mid winter's height, ah, what a gallant heart he Last Line: Is dead without seeing the sunny skies either behind or before. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Lament; Dead, The BARBED WIRE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer afternoon when nothing much Subject(s): Barbed Wire; Horses; Death - Animals BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk of horses of renown Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Last Line: Could her the clash of armor when I closed my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination BIG MARE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is deep in the field, and her four legs Last Line: To-morrow will come a boy. Is she to forget? Subject(s): Animals; Horses BIRTH OF THE FOAL, by FERENC JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: As may was opening the rosebuds Last Line: Like golden flowers %envy with the last stars Subject(s): Animals; Horses BLUE HOURS: 1. CLOUD-HORSE, by RICK BAROT Poem Text First Line: Knowing exactly what it needs Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty BOLTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've a head like a violin-case; I've a jaw Subject(s): Animals; Horses BOY LEADING A HORSE, by MARTIN MOONEY Poem Source First Line: I am fourteen years old, not a hair Last Line: His side, his thighs, his chest. %feed him apples Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States BROODY, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ideally, they like to get the hole dug, then lead Last Line: Given in with her blind eyes open Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses BRUMBY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies beyond the western pines Last Line: And yard his mob again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses BUCKED OFF ITS BRAND, by ROBERT ALEXANDER FAIRLY Poem Text First Line: Take my word! He could buck, could brown baron Last Line: That a horse couldn't buck off its brand! Alternate Author Name(s): F., R. A. Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Horses; Trials BUIE ANNAJOHN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buie annajohn's was the king's black mare Last Line: But half of the heave was buie annajohn, %buie, buie, buie annajohn! Subject(s): Animals; Horses BURRO, by O. R. Poem Source First Line: Beloved vagrant of the ample ear Subject(s): Animals; Horses BURROS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burros lazily infest the mountain Last Line: With tears. No beast can be a standing jest, and find in life much joy or zest, Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Horses; Burros CADENCES, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER Poem Source First Line: I am riding, riding, riding, on the hard dirt road Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T. Subject(s): Animals; Horses CALL TO THE COW PONIES, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They sent us from coorong and cooper Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts CAUCHEMAR IS A WHITE HORSE, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Wear your hair like a skull cap Last Line: Come christ and cauchemar, %my sweet mares till morning Subject(s): Animals; Horses CAVALRY CHARGE, by FOLGER MCKINSEY Poem Source First Line: After the tanks and gun machines Subject(s): Animals; Horses CHIQUITA, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn't her match in the county Last Line: -- well, hosses is hosses! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Horses CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of the king right Last Line: To a man of valor Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War CITY HORSES, by HELEN MYERS MELDRUM Poem Source First Line: Their fiery spirits tamed, heads meekly bent Subject(s): Animals; Horses COCHERO AND THE HORSE, by NORBERT LYONS Poem Source First Line: Every country has its troubles Subject(s): Animals; Horses COIGN OF VANTAGE, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: A horse and a mule stand head to tail in a pasture Last Line: The horse and the mule know better Subject(s): Animals; Asses And Mules; Horses CONROY'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was the way of it, don't you know Last Line: The end of the story of conroy's gap Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses CONSCRIPTS, by ANNA M. FIELDING Poem Source First Line: On a smooth, white road in a neutral land Subject(s): Animals; Horses CONSUL ROMANUS, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Source First Line: Shod with gold, %and bitted with gold Subject(s): Animals; Horses CORRAL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I'm watching the news Last Line: When the kids got shocked. The wire is thin, %almost invisible Subject(s): Animals; Horses; News COSMIC MICROBE, by BERNARD SEEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today / rears like a / powerful blue-gray Last Line: Even by yourself. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue shadow of the wagon Last Line: Round and round the marigold Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o' Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wear the color of my skin Last Line: In this city where everyone / is afraid of horses? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Horses; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRESTS OF MY COLTS, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Now my colts curve Last Line: The crests of my colts as we %flash down Subject(s): Animals; Horses CUORED O' SKEERIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lish, you rickollect that-air Last Line: Little traction-engine there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses CUT OUT FOR IT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut out / as a horse Subject(s): Horses DANCERS AT THE MOY, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This italian square Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Horses DANIEL WEBSTER'S HORSES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If when the wind blows Last Line: "see their shoes fit." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fantasy; Horses; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DANSE MACABRE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken oarshaft was stuck in the hill Last Line: Its cruel nail to its true pencil. Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Horses DAPPLEDUN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy who, strange to say Last Line: Poor dappledun was dead! Subject(s): Animals; Horses DAT OL' MARE O' MINE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not Last Line: Dat ol' mare o' mine. Subject(s): Animals; Horses DEAD HORSE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the fence line, I was about to call him in when Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals; Food & Eating DEAD HORSE, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the early morning mist Last Line: O heavy breast of the dead horse! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Skeletons DEAD-HORSE GATE, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Text First Line: The track that ran through hunthaway Last Line: Along the lachlan-side. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Drought; Horses; Legends; Dead, The DEATH OF THE HORSES BY FIRE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen a house in the sleeping time Last Line: And called to each other to save them Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals DELIA AND I, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Delia and I are driving alone Last Line: Learning the roads that lead lovers to rome! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Lent; Love; Pleasure; Wagons DESCRIPTION OF A PLAZA, A MONUMENT AND ALLEGORIES IN BRONZE, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: The horse, a liberator Last Line: Black truncheons, green helmets %whitened by birdshit Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Monuments; Patriotism DIALOGUE .. OLD BLACK HORSE AT CHARING CROSS AND NEW ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In london late happen'd a pleasant discourse Last Line: Since this h-er beast you'll not find worth your care %let him go to grass, and the man have his mar Subject(s): Animals; Horses DISTANT RUNNERS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ferdinand de soto lies Last Line: The legs are locked; the sky is dead Subject(s): Animals; De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542); Horses DRAFT HORSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: Wanted us to get down %and walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses DRAGGING HORSES, by M. REBECCA RANSOM Poem Source First Line: If it's your own horse, you don't want to watch Last Line: Curled in thier baskets, safe, nestled, held Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses DUMB APPEAR, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: She was a pretty, nicely-mannered mare Subject(s): Animals; Horses DUSK OF HORSES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses EARLY MORNING RIDE, by DOROTHEA GILROY Poem Source First Line: The dawn has left a rosy light Subject(s): Animals; Horses EL HIJO DEL MAR, by CHARLES HOWARD SHINN Poem Source First Line: This is a story of long ago Subject(s): Animals; Horses EL-AZREK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My only sequin served to bribe Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Horses ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peg nicholson was a gude bay mare Last Line: As priest-rid cattle are, - &c. &c. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ELKRIDGE HUNT CLUB, by D. S. G. Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Horses EPITAPH FOR A HORSEMAN, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Let no one mourn his mount, upholstered bone Last Line: Bit, reins and riding-crop for friends to gather. %none but a beast's remains lie buried here Subject(s): Animals; Horses EUGENICS, by ASS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ram, ass, and horse, my kyrnos, we look over Subject(s): Horses EUSTACE AND EDITH; OR THE OLD ROCKING-HORSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor rocking-horse! Eustace, and edith too Last Line: And galloped thee with all their might and skill. Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE PANTHER, HORSE, AND OTHER BEASTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks to win the fair Last Line: Spurn'd at the crowd, and sought the plain. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Horses; Panthers; Women; Allegories FABLES: 1ST SER. 43. THE COUNCIL OF HORSES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a time a neighing steed Last Line: And, like his ancestors, was bitted. Subject(s): Animals; Horses FACE OF THE HORSE, by NIKOLAI ALEXEYEVICH ZABOLOTSKY Poem Source First Line: Animals do not sleep. At night Last Line: Gazes out of its meek eyes, %upon the egnimatic, stationary world Alternate Author Name(s): Zabolotsky, Nikolay Alexeyevich Subject(s): Animals; Horses FATHER RILEY'S HORSE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the horse thief, andy regan, that was hunted like a / dog Last Line: For the steeplechase on father riley's horse! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing FIGURE OF A HORSEMAN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The frieze of life forces Last Line: Or an illusion caused by the winds %warm april wind? Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Hallucinations And Illusions; Horses; Prisons And Prisoners FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FOR SALE, A HORSE, by CHARLES EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In good condition Last Line: He'll aid your reading of horatius. Subject(s): Animals; Horses FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gaze on the moon by parting clouds revealed Subject(s): Horses; Lake District, England FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers FOXHUNTER'S DREAM, by G. C. SCHEU Poem Source First Line: I sit and close my eyelids and I dream I Subject(s): Animals; Horses FROM THE WRECK, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn out, boys!' - 'what's up with our super tonight?' Last Line: How much for her hide? She had never worn shoes. Subject(s): Animals; Horses GAUGUIN'S WHITE HORSE, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: There he stood, quite suddenly Last Line: Bends to, compelled to answer Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903); Horses; Paintings And Painters GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends Last Line: "the roman proverb famous." Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans GETTING THROUGH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to apologize Last Line: If there's an april %in the last frail snow of april %they will knock hard to be born Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Snow; Survival GIDEON'S BAND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this unearthly noise Last Line: For every dog must have his day. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Music & Musicians GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Last Line: Sterile vision -- and a great %wind we ride Subject(s): Animals; Gifts And Giving; Horses; Parents GIRL RIDING BAREBACK, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Subject(s): Horses; Imagination; Summer; Fancy GODHORSE, by KOJO LAING Poem Source First Line: The horse with birds on its mane, doubt on its tail Last Line: Carrying their expanding beauty still, still Subject(s): Animals; Horses GOOD BUCKSKIN HORSE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Yellow trimmed in black Last Line: Cow-huntin' mother Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life HASSAN TO HIS MARE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my beauty! Come, my desert darling! Last Line: With thy glossy neck laid close to mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEARSE-HORSE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said the hearse-horse to the coffin Last Line: Said the coffin to the hearse-horse, %'worms!' Subject(s): Animals; Coffins; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Last Line: But desire, desire is long Subject(s): Desire; Animals; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HIGH PASTURES, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: They got their mounts the hard way Last Line: In the high pastures of his mind. Subject(s): Animals; Horses HILL MAN'S BURIAL, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Over the wind-blown snow, drifting drearily Last Line: The long black box to the grave in the hollow. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Graves; Horses; Snow; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HOLY DAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was in the queensland drought Last Line: And holy dan was drowned Subject(s): Animals;death;drought;horses;piety; "dead, The; HORSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In its stall stands the 19th century Subject(s): Horses HORSE, by VALERIE PATTERSON NAPANANGKA Poem Source First Line: A horse is running, %running scared Last Line: Day by day, it just goes on, %poor horse, it makes me feel sad Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Horses HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know two things about the horse Last Line: And that's what sits upon its torse %and says, 'giddyap!' to the poor horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE (1), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A / quarter horse, no rider Last Line: To knock me off? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Deception; Friendship; Horses HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it were our privilege Last Line: Around, under the ground? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A train was rushing along one day Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains HORSE CALLED TRADITION, by WILLIAM BRAY Poem Source First Line: A dreamed of a man who could Last Line: Moving in space. %on horse bolts Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE CALLIGRAM, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You will find here a new representation og the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE CURSED BY THE SUN, by UNKNOWN+11 Poem Source First Line: From today thou shalt have a (certain) time of dying Last Line: Since that day the horse's (certain) time of dying %commenced Subject(s): Animals; Curses; Horses HORSE DIARY, by ENDI FELICIA HARTIGAN Poem Source First Line: Not the not-so-secret passage through the fence, the bottom wire Last Line: Weight -- part of the rain, pressing on the grass, where horses aren't Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE IN AMSTERDAM, AFTER REMBRANDT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could read the blazed face Last Line: In the wilderness of its eyes Subject(s): Horses; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) HORSE IN THE CAGE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its face, as long as an arm, looks down & down. Subject(s): Horses; Fathers; Dreams; Nightmares HORSE IN THE LINOLEUM, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source Last Line: Two peppercorns in a field of clover Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE IS LOOSE, by OJIBE KUROME Poem Source Last Line: On foot over tama brow Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE OF PETE LAREAU, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Sacre! You laugh ma ol' paree? Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE RHYMEL STOKEINTEIGNHEAD, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you hace a horse with four white legs Last Line: Keep him to the end Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE SENSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A horse can't pull while kicking Last Line: There'll be no time for kicking Subject(s): Animals;horses HORSE STANDING IN SUNLIGHT, by DENNIS HINRICHSEN Poem Source First Line: Witless to think such grazing could wound the sun and Last Line: The colt awaken and take the apple from her hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE WITH TWO WHEELS, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: My son and his friend benjamin. Couldn't fly for years Last Line: You roar in winters, oh, women who shed their leaves Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ruins HORSE'S PETITION TO HIS DRIVER; A PLACARD ON WALLS, 1885, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up hill - whip me not Last Line: When you are angry - strike me not Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HORSE-BELLS, by D. G. G. Poem Text First Line: I love to lie and listen to the horse bells' merry sound Last Line: Tinkle! Tonkle! Tankle! Tong! Subject(s): Animals; Bells; Cattle; Horses HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse falters against skulls Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of t horses;he vast ravens of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Horses HORSEFLIES, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the horse went down Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals HORSEFLY, by ALICE HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: On the edge of the prairie so wide it was called the sea of Last Line: Neighbors on days like this, and no one has disagreed with him yet Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Grandparents; Horses HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full 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 HORSES, by ZEKHARYE-KHONE BERGNER Poem Source First Line: Eighteen years %of hauling heavy loads Last Line: And now their lives are spent Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: During the restless hours of certain mornings I hear them Last Line: Horses with no one to dream them Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Poetry And Poets HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Last Line: Were bright and fearful presences to me Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Last Line: But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts %our life is changed; their coming our beginning Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War HORSES, by PAUL NELSON Poem Source First Line: The stallion and mares, appaloosas Last Line: Inheriting, the meek %won't be horses Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brace my knee against Last Line: Heaving between my thighs. Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Horses HORSES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the first animal Last Line: Are never tamed, never entirely tamed Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the first animal Last Line: Now when they stop, bent %to our oated hands, muzzles so soft, the horses %are never tamed, never en Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES AT MIDNIGHT WITHOUT A MOON, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Subject(s): Horses HORSES AT VALLEY STORE, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I meet the horses Last Line: So they pause and from their distance outside of time %they wait Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES IN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come out of crete Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical HORSES IN SPRING, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: Beware too much happiness! Last Line: And didn't like it, too cold, too soft, too unpredictable Subject(s): Animals; Happiness; Horses; Spring HORSES IN THE LAKE, by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA Poem Source First Line: The horses go down at dawn Last Line: The wind's %asleep Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES ON THE CAMARGUE, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey wastes of dread Last Line: And loved to course with tempests through the night Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Animals; Horses HOW THE FAVOURITE BEAT US, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, said the boozer, I tell you, it's true, sir Last Line: To win when you're able, and keep your hands down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Fortune; Horses HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud Last Line: "him through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HOW THE SAILOR RODE THE BRUMBY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was an agile sailor lad Last Line: To many still bring tears Subject(s): Animals;horses;sailing & Sailors HOW TO CHOOSE A HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one white foot, try him" Last Line: Take off his hide and feed him to the crows Subject(s): Animals;horses;mnemonics HUGHIE THE GRAEME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gude lord scroope's to the hunting gane Subject(s): Animals;death;horses; "dead, The; I WATERED MY HORSE AT A SPRING BY THE WALL; IMITATING THE OLD BALLAD, by YU SHI-NAN Poem Source First Line: We galloped our horses across river's edge Last Line: Yet by this I may repay him for a single meal Subject(s): Animals; Frontier And Pioneer Life; Horses IF POETRY WERE NOT A MORALITY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the kind of woman who Last Line: As joy, as more horses than we need Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Horses; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers IN A DREAM OF HORSES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think I loved the palomino best Last Line: In a dream of such obvious charm, %if I could help it Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN MEMORY OF NANCY HANKS, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Source First Line: Dead is the famous nancy, %one time queen Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN THE DROVING DAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a pound, said the auctioneer Last Line: He can take me back to the droving days. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Hearts; Horses; Life; Nature IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black stallion and a white mare Last Line: Too obvious to invent or not to know Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black stallion and a white mare Last Line: Original energy in its place below, %too obvious or not to know Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN THE STABLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! You don't like him; well maybe - we all have our fancies / of course Last Line: Was the ride when that old fellow saved me from gilbert, o'meally and hall! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Stables INFINITE HORSES, by SILVINA OCAMPO Poem Source First Line: I have seen them asleep on the grass Last Line: In peaceful grottoes from a distance Subject(s): Animals; Horses IPECACUANHA, THE EMETIC, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The tryst in the labyrinth is slaked and duped by the divi Last Line: Other. Passing one inevitable sea Subject(s): Animals; Horses JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 39, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing in our street among the automobiles, horse? Subject(s): Horses; Modern Life JUPITER'S HORSES; OR, THE MODERN LOCOMOTIVE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: How often at night I have stood on the hill Last Line: "old jupiter's horses are coming to drink." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Locomotives; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States KENTUCKY THOROUGHBRED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the hoss from hoof to head Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses KISSING A HORSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the two spoiled, barn-sour geldings Subject(s): Horses; Kisses LADY GODIVA'S HORSE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: She rides me tamely through the town Last Line: Pulling us toward the sea Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Women LAMENTATION OF AN OLD HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My clothing was once linsey wolsey fine Last Line: "it was over hedges, ditches, likewise gates and stiles" Subject(s): Aging;animals;horses;lament LAND-HORSES AND SEA-HORSES, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: The patient horses of the plough Last Line: The deathless horses of the deep! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses LARGO, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bought him of the navajos- shadow of a pony Subject(s): Animals; Horses LAST HORSE SHOW, by MELINDA WEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Even before the first jump she knew it was over Last Line: Speake rannounced she must collect herself, and dismount Subject(s): Animals; Horses LAY OF THE HOSPITAL RACE, by HUGH EDMUND KEOUGH Poem Source First Line: The ambulance stood near the paddock gate Subject(s): Animals; Horses LEAR'S ADVENTURES ON HORSEBACK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: L(ear) & k(night) leave frascati-july 28th 1842.-villa taverna Last Line: K. & l. Are attacked by several very venomous dogs in the vicinity %of colonna Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Travel LIKE HORSES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their long black coat they love the back roads Last Line: They never will Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Trust LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty LITTLE PONY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little pony is locked in the pound Last Line: What is it you hear? What is it you see? Subject(s): Animals; Horses LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers LOGICAL ENGLISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I said, 'this horse, sir, will you shoe?'" Subject(s): Animals;horses;language; Words;vocabulary LOREINE: A HORSE, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lifted up her head Last Line: And she is beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Animals; Horses MAGGIE'S STAR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White star! That travellest at old maggie's pace Last Line: Albeit thy path is scarce above the mole's. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers MAKE-BELIEVE HUNTING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often, when the meet was at the hall Last Line: His stall and pasture is your memory. Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood MALAGUENA, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Death Last Line: Leaving and coming in Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Death; Horses MAN AND DOG AND HORSE AND TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Friend to man, dog, horse and tree Subject(s): Dogs; Horses; Trees; Mankind MARE, by KATE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Lovely fia was the summer queen Last Line: I cannot find your peer in any pasture Subject(s): Animals; Horses MARE AND NEWBORN FOAL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you die Subject(s): Horses; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MASTER OF THE HORSE, by GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL Poem Source First Line: Horses, like men, ned a fair bit of schooling Subject(s): Animals; Horses METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination; Fancy METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Last Line: The cottage was in carmel - on a bluff - nextdoor to bob hope Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the shadowy horses, their long manes a-shake Last Line: And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace Subject(s): Horses; Peace; Rest MILES KEOGH'S HORSE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the bluff of the little big-horn Last Line: Have not yet perished from earth. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Little Bighorn, Battle Of MILKMAN'S HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On summer mornings when it's hot Last Line: And then he goes like this - %klippity-klip, klippity-klip, klippity-klip Subject(s): Animals; Horses MIREIO: THE MARES OF THE CAMARGUE, by FREDERIC MISTRAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred mares, all white! Their manes Last Line: The stallions of camargue, all joyful in the roar. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER ACCIDENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse that carried miss kilmansegg Last Line: With singleton's 'golden ointment'. Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Horses MISTER HORSE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mmmm / I get up and am seized by the present Last Line: If I send him to visit you sometime Subject(s): Animals; Horses MOOSE, by JEAN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: I missed that son of a bitch Last Line: Is the shape he gave %my fears Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Horses MOUNTED POLICE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watchful, grave, he sits astride his horse Last Line: "say, that's a helva place to park your car!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Police MULEYKEH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a stranger passed the tent of hoseyn, he Last Line: "you never have loved my pearl." Subject(s): Animals; Horses MULLIGAN'S MARE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place Last Line: And send you a flyer like mulligan's mare. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Racing; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine MUSTANG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaparral grew you Last Line: Fade to the stars! It is time for rest. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My father kept a horse and my mother kept a mare Last Line: "had a nip from the flea, had a bite from the louse" Subject(s): Animals;family Life;horses; Relatives MY GRANDFATHER'S AND FATHER'S HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The two old-timers stand out west of town Last Line: Every cowboy has a horse that's not for sale Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life MY PONY, by EUNICE J. MILES Poem Text First Line: I have a pony all my own Last Line: When riding on his back. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MY YEAR AS A HORSE, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: One morning just before I turned twelve, a horse's long face Last Line: You can't do this. I'm a horse. I'm a wild horse Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Horses; Imagination NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEIGH, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farrier drops the left hind hoof, Subject(s): Horses; Accidents NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Last Line: Of dream, lit chimera distilled from liquid air Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEVER BE THE HORSE, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Night on night a horse stood in the hull Last Line: Then in each ankle a bell clapped for the mud Subject(s): Animals; Horses NO REST FOR THE HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a union for teamster and waiter Subject(s): Animals; Horses NONSENSE RHYMES: 9, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Down the hill the waters cascade Last Line: And now my horses will have to wade Subject(s): Animals;horses;nonsense NOTA BENE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boys, to the hunting field! Though't is Subject(s): Animals; Horses NUMBER 7', by EDITH MUSGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Behold me, bound between the shafts Subject(s): Animals; Horses OF HORSES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hold power between thy knees; yea, string Last Line: Loose tender mouth would make thee dumbly man's. Subject(s): Animals; Horses OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism; Horses; Flowers; Trees; Love OH! FOR A STEED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a steed, a rushing steed, and a blazing scimitar Last Line: To conquer if then to fall. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nationalism - Ireland OLD GRAY MARE, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a line of rails on an up-land green Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD MAJOR, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: No one of us can keep him in his stall Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD PAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leavin' cheyenne" Last Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leaving cheyenne" Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OLD PARDON, THE SON OF REPRIEVE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never heard tell of the story? Last Line: For pardon, the son of reprieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing OLD PINCHER, SELECTION, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I gave to old dobbin his song and his due Last Line: Though he said 't was a dew-drop, I know 't was a tear. Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD PONE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather once had a horse that was known Last Line: To trot pretty fast up the lane to the stable! Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses OLD SQUIERS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Old squiers weighed two hundred pounds Last Line: Must ride up every time. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights & Knighthood OLD-TIMER, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He showed up in the springtime, when the Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON A BOARD BY A HORSE-TROUGH, ROAD SALISBURY TO MARLBOROUGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man of kindness to his steed is kind Last Line: He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge, %remember his creator is thy judge Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses ON A CLERGYMAN'S HORSE BITING HIM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The steed bit his master Last Line: "he heard the good pastor / cry, 'all flesh is grass'" Subject(s): Animals;clergy;horses; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where's glossy bess, the carmen's mare? Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON BUYING A HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One white foot, try him Last Line: Take off his hide and feed him to the crows Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON MEETING FATHER GOOSE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, / as webbed as moss, Last Line: "you gol dern fool!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE DEATH OF CYNTHIA'S HORSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the world could boast of fair or good Last Line: When carrying her who to the sun gave light. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ON THE FIELDS OF FRANCE, by THOMAS H. HERNDON Poem Source First Line: God speed the horse on the fields of france Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I remember the cleared streets, the strange suspense Last Line: They came, and they are gone, and unreturning. Subject(s): Animals; Firefighters; Horses; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE RANGE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On nungar the mists of the morning hung low Last Line: Marks the last resting-place of the lord of the hills. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Love; Dead, The ONE OF THE PINES HAS A BEND IN IT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: There's no way of telling what goes on there Subject(s): Measurement Units; Horses ONLY A JOCKEY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard bennison, a jockey, aged fourteen, while riding Last Line: Draw the shroud over the jockey-boy's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Soul ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORCHARD, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mare roamed soft about the slope Subject(s): Horses OUR HORSES, by F. M. W. Poem Source First Line: This is our english stable lad Subject(s): Animals; Horses OUR NEW HORSE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boys had come back from the races Last Line: With fifty pounds loss on the deal. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing OUT OF SIGHT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held a polo meeting at a little country town Last Line: For he was in the ambulance, and safely 'out of sight'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Polo PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Subject(s): Horses; Mothers & Daughters PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAINT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Until she saw the horse, stuffed and saddled Last Line: Finds him still tied to her bedpost Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PASSING OF THE HORSE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: Every little while they tell use that the Subject(s): Animals; Horses PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PEDIGREES, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: The stock farms are booming Subject(s): Animals; Horses PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares PENATES IN PERIL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught within this cavernous disaster Subject(s): Horses PHANTOM HOOFS, by CALVIN DILL WILSON Poem Text First Line: Only, - / man will be more lonely Last Line: The beat and rhythm of the hoofs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses PICTURES, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The vet says, either you can give her a shot Last Line: And I say yes, yes, I do, even though I wasn't there Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Family Life; Horses; Sickness PLATO'S BAD HORSE, by DEBORAH WOODARD Poem Source First Line: I wanted plato's bad horse Last Line: To join the halves of what I still don't know Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLOWMAN ON HORSEBACK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The sun has sucked all fire from the blood Last Line: The swirled dust does not say. Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; United States; America POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO, by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Out of what stabled brain have you pranced Last Line: Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty. Subject(s): Animals; Chirico, Giorgio De (1888-1978); Horses; Paintings & Painters PONY EXPRESS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eddies swirl in the treacherous ford Subject(s): Animals; Horses POOR BLACK BESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when fortune, blind goddess, she fled my abode" Last Line: "then farewell for ever, my poor black bess" Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;despair;fortune;horses POOR OLD HORSE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o once I lay in stable, a hunter well and warm" Last Line: "poor old horse, till he die" Subject(s): Animals;horses PRACTICALITY, by JIM HAMMONS Poem Source First Line: If he humps up to buck Last Line: Isn't done by a broken hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PRAYER, by C. S. PURVES Poem Source First Line: Thine are the cattle on a thousand hills Subject(s): Animals; Horses RACE OF THE YEAR, by W. PHILLPOTTS WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Come down to the derby, come down to the race Subject(s): Animals; Horses RANGE RIDER, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: Up and saddle at daybreak Subject(s): Animals; Horses RED JACK, by MARY DURACK Poem Text First Line: She rises clear to memory's eye Last Line: Went all their ways alone. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Solitude; Women; Loneliness REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the curl of his waving lash Last Line: With the tandem that nature gave me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Pedestrians REMORSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse's name was remorse Subject(s): Horses REMOUNTS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy red of the dawning your hoof Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses RICKSHA BOY, by IDA HOYT CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Running trotting in the shafts Last Line: Wanchee one good ricksha boy? Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses; Laughter RIDERS IN THE STAND, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's some that ride the robbo style, and bump at every stride Last Line: Ride like a bag of flour, and win -- they'll cheer you in the stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing RIDING CAMEL, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know no word of the quarrel, the Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us ride together Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States RINGERS, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I've traveled with a ringer Subject(s): Animals; Horses RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this was what macpherson told Last Line: The race the dead men ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares ROAN STALLION, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing Last Line: Who has killed god. The night-wind veering, the smell of the spilt wine drifted down hill from the h Subject(s): Horses SADDLE-SONG, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: To horse! As rode the knights of old Subject(s): Animals; Horses SALTBUSH BILL ON THE PATRIARCHS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee Last Line: How jacob bred them strawberry calves three thousand years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Nativity, The SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced out back at the christmas time Last Line: But the dour guidwife gat nane. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint SCHERZO, by JACQUES LECLERCQ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do not know what wonder Last Line: Will you care? Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Jokes SEAL, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind Last Line: Neigh in the flowery chasm. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses SENRYU (68), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A famous horse Last Line: Forgotten Subject(s): Animals; Horses SHE HAD SOME HORSES, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Native Americans; Horses; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILVER, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought silver must have snaked logs Last Line: And dried to streaks of salt leaked white from the hair Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Animals; Horses SILVERHEELS ARISTOCRAT, by JOHN ALLISON HAINING Poem Text First Line: Not of the herds that were drifting, aimlessly over the range Last Line: He was born free, among horses, proud aristocrat in his right. Subject(s): Animals; Horses SINCE YOU ASK, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the air, over water, Subject(s): Falcons; Horses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 91, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses of the sea Last Line: Toss and turn over. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Friend like a flying bird is my horse Last Line: Like a thunderbird streaked with the lightning he flies! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: We are in danger, the crows are surrounding us! Last Line: Here is a horse that has aided a man! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SITTING IN A SMALL SCREENHOUSE ON A SUMMER MORNING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten more miles, it is south dakota. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SLEWED!, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was threatening to rain as the red sun sank down Last Line: Like paddy, my mate, in the dark get astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips 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 SONG OF SOLOMON JONES, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: My love is like a milk-white mare Last Line: Where I was, here I am. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Horses; Love SONG OF THE HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How joyous his neigh! Last Line: How joyous his neigh! Subject(s): Animals;horses;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: Unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Sea Horses SONG OF VELOCIPEDING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Queer sights we every day do find Last Line: And bruise your latter end Subject(s): Animals;horses;singing & Singers STALLION, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking the dry winter woods Last Line: I felt a wonderful violence Subject(s): Animals; Horses STOLEN, by ANEGLA REGAS Poem Source First Line: It was the horses that did it. I never seen em Last Line: It was that first, wild breath -- Subject(s): Animals; Horses STRAY HORSES, by ANN E. MICHAEL Poem Source First Line: The black and the brown Last Line: And appear so sharp in this cold light Subject(s): Animals; Horses SUNLIGHT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight, a colt from the ranges, glossy Subject(s): Animals; Horses SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and %shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys TAKE HER, BREAK HER, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah tell me why you turn and fly Last Line: To mount the car and manage thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Animals; Horses TALK TO THE ANIMALS, by ALLAN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: A clever horse adds on the earth %by pawing Last Line: How in alsace a beekeeper's death is announced %among the hives Subject(s): Animals; Horses TALLYHO-HUM, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever gone visiting for a weekend of revelry Last Line: Much as you do about streptocucci Subject(s): Animals; Horses TEN BROECK, by JAMES TANDY ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Ole man harper's gone to rest Subject(s): Animals; Horses TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 3. A HORSE SEPARATED FROM THE STABLE, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Ears like snow, a russet coat Last Line: Drawing the splendid coach Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Horses THAT ROAN CAYUSE, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Colt she was when I spied her, stray on Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE AMATEUR RIDER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Him going to ride for us! Him - with the pants and the Last Line: Said. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The THE APOCRYPHA OF JACQUES DERRIDA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruptured underbelly of a black horse flew overhead Last Line: Moving over snow. Subject(s): Animals; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Horses; Loss; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE ARAB TO HIS FAVORITE STEED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beautiful! My beautiful! That standest meekly by Last Line: Away! Who overtakes us now shall claim thee for his pains! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Variant Title(s): The Arab's Farewell To His Horse;the Arab's Farewell To His Steed Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses THE ARABIAN HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You ask, 'whence came the arab horse Last Line: To the sultan's royal stall. Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Islam; Muslims; Moslems THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE BAD RIDER, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little pony / his name was dapple gray Last Line: For all the lady's hire. Variant Title(s): Dapple-grey Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BALLAD OF JENNY THE MARE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'll sing you a song, and a merry, merry song" Last Line: When the rest could hardly trot Subject(s): Animals;horses THE BATH, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the once lovely monster, in the tide Last Line: The foamy lash of the assaulting sea. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea; Ocean THE BELIEFS OF A HORSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field out back Subject(s): Horses; Ranch Life THE BISON TRACK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the tent! The sun has risen Last Line: Howl around each grim-eyed carcass, on the bloody bison track! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Bison; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE BLOOD HORSE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gamarra is a dainty steed Last Line: Where balkh amidst the desert stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little colt-broncho, loaned to the farm Last Line: O broncho that would not be broken of dancing. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BULLOCKY'S LOVE EPISODE, by A. F. YORK Poem Text First Line: I sez to her - 'gee, boxer, gee' - behind the shed last night Last Line: Agree.' Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Horses THE CAVALIER'S SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A steed, a steed of matchless speed! Last Line: And hero-like to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Variant Title(s): Song Of The Cavalier Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE CHARIOT OF CUCHULLIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the car, light moving, I behold" Last Line: "of the wild chafer's dark-brown hues, / the color that his flanks imbues" Subject(s): "animals;horses;legends, Irish; THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COLT; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell a tale - how farmer john Last Line: I know it by your smiling. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE DRAFT HORSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: And walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night and full moon Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains THE DUSK OF HORSES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE FOAL, by WILLIAM RENTON Poem Text First Line: The mouse-brown foal that fain had fed Last Line: Ere he can feed. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE GEEBUNG POLO CLUB, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub Last Line: He's been haunted by the spectres of the geebung polo club. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Clubs (associations); Horses; Polo THE GIPSY PRAISES HIS HORSE, by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're admiring my horse, sir, I see Last Line: Just a little bit damp on the tip of his tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava Subject(s): Animals; Gypsies; Horses; Gipsies THE HORSE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not so unsound as a path Subject(s): Horses THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE HORSE - A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: A thunderpulse of rhythmic speed encased Last Line: And pluck the insects from his radiator. Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Horses; Progress; Cars THE HORSE IN THE TREE, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: High in the fork of a gnarled old tree Last Line: "twas a dam' fine leap he made." Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Trees; Dead, The 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 HORSE THIEF, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he moved, cropping the grass at the purple canyon's lip Last Line: String me up, dave! Go dig my grave! I rode him across the skies! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Rustling & Rustlers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE HORSE WANTED SUGAR, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sascha shivered where the mare'd licked her hand Subject(s): Horses THE HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning? Subject(s): World War I; Horses; Animals; First World War THE HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE HORSES AT THE TANK, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every breath taken in by the man Last Line: Where the spirit horses drink Subject(s): Horses; Love THE HOSS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoss he is a splendud beast Last Line: Down on my knees and love the hoss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love THE HUMAN PORTFOL;IO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To express milk, like expressing a feeling Subject(s): Horses; Milk; Body, Human; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE HUMBLE HORSE, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Who wouldn't ride as high as bellerophon Last Line: The march of thunders driving under him. Subject(s): Animals; Bellerophon; Horses THE IDOL, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: O limp-haired corsican! Thy france was fair Last Line: Unquiet when she neighed. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Idols THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thus they fought; the iron clangour pierced Last Line: Amid the greeks and trojans lightly bore. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now the horses of aiakides, off wide of the war-ground Last Line: Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement.' Subject(s): Achilles; Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE IRON HORSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song is mine of arab steed Last Line: The world will pat thee on the neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE KROOMBIT BOYS, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: Beyond the broken bloodwoods, over the timbered rise Last Line: Their whooping and their cooees, their songs of long-dead years. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE LAST LEAP, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is over! Fleet career Last Line: "and thy fall is best!" Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE OLD GREY MARE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John cook had a little grey mare Last Line: He, haw, hum! Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little mock-man on the Last Line: An' ever'body ever'wheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Stairs THE LITTLE WORN-OUT PONY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a little worn-out pony this side of hogan's shack Last Line: But I doubt if there's his equal in the pony world today Subject(s): Animals;cattle;children;heroism;horses; Childhood;heroes;heroines THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky Last Line: I think of that wild ride Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around Last Line: And the stockmen tell the story of his ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Herein my mountain home Last Line: All west of gundagai!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference Last Line: Hawse! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE Poem Text First Line: A flitting shadow follows Last Line: Back to her breast again! Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE OLD GRAY MARE (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the old gray mare ain't what she used to be" Last Line: Many long years ago Subject(s): Animals;horses THE OLD TIMER'S STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep were shorn and the wool went down Last Line: When we raced on the mooki river! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing; Sheep THE OLD WHIM-HORSE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly Last Line: Are the bleaching bones of the old grey horse. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Memory; Dead, The THE OPEN STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice Last Line: Send us word each race you start in and we'll back you every time.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Racing THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OUTLAW AND THE RIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He had come to umarella when the drought of '98 Last Line: "and jim was there astride him, fast asleep" Subject(s): Animals;horses THE PET, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode him through the village, smiling. Subject(s): Horses THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spur my horse past ruins Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE POET'S HORSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come, show the world your mettle now Last Line: Bareback through heaven, and twice a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE PROTEST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say 'e isn't remorse! Last Line: (protest dismissed.) Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crows; Horses; Remorse THE RAILWAY TRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see it lap the miles Last Line: At its own stable door. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Railroads; Rivers; Railways; Trains THE RIDING OF PEACEFUL HENRY, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: I am the son of the wind and the plain Last Line: One horse there was that I did not ride. Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses THE ROAD TO HOGAN'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now look, you see. It's this way like Last Line: And hogan's old grey mare! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROAN COLT, by KEITH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: His awkward legs have not learned how Last Line: To see a colt become a horse. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE ROAN HORSE', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roan horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness Last Line: Hanging to a white star between the ears Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States THE RUNAWAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall Last Line: "ought to be told to come and take him in." Subject(s): Animals; Escapes; Horses; Fugitives THE SMUGGLER'S LEAP; A LEGEND OF THANET, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The fire-flash shines from reculver cliff Last Line: Never borrow a horse you don't know of a friend!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Horses; Smuggling & Smugglers THE SONG OF THE LEATHER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my trail stretches out to the edge of the sky Last Line: "go to sleep, pardner mine, go to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains THE STEALING OF THE MARE; AN ARABIC EPIC OF THE TENTH CENTURY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of god the merciful, the compassionate! Last Line: To god be praise! Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Love; Story-telling THE TAMER OF STEEDS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this world where skies are free from stain Last Line: Of all the passions of the human heart. Subject(s): Horses; Passion THE TEAM BULLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrays scorched like furnace fires Last Line: "for I have taken none on these!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Drought; Horses; Dead, The THE THOROUGHBRED, by KATE DOWNING GHENT Poem Text First Line: Way out in front just a - breezin' along Last Line: Way out in front just a-breezin' along. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE TOTE TEAM, by ARCHIE WILFRED STONE Poem Text First Line: Over the bridge / with heavy tread Last Line: A black and a white and a blood-red bay. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE TRANSPORTATION SITUATION', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have starved the steam horse Last Line: We shall get back our horse Subject(s): Railroads; Horses; Progress THE TRUTH, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, / the horse is entering Subject(s): Seashore; Horses; God; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WARGEILAH HANDICAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wargeilah town is very small Last Line: He won wargeilah handicap!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Heroism; Horses; Towns; Heroes; Heroines THE WHITE HORSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What do I stare at - not the colt Last Line: When you come up behind, to mount!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text 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 THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILD MARE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a breath that comes and goes Last Line: The challenging scream of the conqueror-stallion. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses; Rome, Italy; Sea; Ocean THE WISCONSIN HORSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step at a time to return Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE WOLD WAGGON, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt wold waggon uncle had Last Line: V a-ben a-done vor years agoo. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THERE WAS A LITTLE NOBBY COLT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Horses THERE'S ANOTHER BLESSED HORSE FELL DOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and / sleeping sound Last Line: It's another blessed horse fell down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sleep; War THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses 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 THREE TESTIMONIES OF AYACUCHO, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: From a soldier %after the battle Last Line: Of war, hunger, and the horses Subject(s): Animals; Death; Heroism; Horses; Soldiers; War TO A FAVOURITE PONY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, hie thee on, my gentle gyp Last Line: I'll sing thy praise in better rhyme. Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO A RANGE HORSE, by PATRICE CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: They viewed the long parade of yesteryear Last Line: With me beside you through eternity. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A RIVER HORSE, by FRANCIS LEO GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Hippo, so dull of brain and skin Last Line: Whence came bright pink upon your shanks? Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO EDWARD ON THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST PONY, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Why weeps my boy?' his father said Last Line: Provide a cure for every ill Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses TO FIDO, HIS HORSE, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My trusty warhorse, spirited yet mild Last Line: Bore that dear burden proudly on her way Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO HIS MARE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My girl has legs as slim and straight Last Line: When I dare to let her go. Variant Title(s): Cowboy To His Mare Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO PRIAPUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in thy green enclosure here Last Line: Let these to enter and to steal be bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Horses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO RIDE, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The street is soon there Last Line: And then you stop Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO THE FOUR COURTS, PLEASE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The driver rubbed at his nettly chin Last Line: And the poor, when they're old, have little of peace. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Poverty TO THE HORSE BLACK EAGLE WHICH I RODE AT THE BATTLE ZAMORNA, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swart steed of night, thou hast charged thy last Last Line: And call thee to thy grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): War; Horses TO WILDING, MY POLO-PONY, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wilding, I must leave thee! Subject(s): Animals; Horses TOMMY CORRIGAN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace Last Line: The gallant tommy corrigan will ride lone hand again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TOWARDS HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Near castle butte, the clouds Last Line: Never ending road Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life TRAIL OF DEATH, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: We rode from daybreak; white and hot Subject(s): Animals; Horses TRIPLE SONNET OF THE PLUSH PONY PART 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A body in the dawn Last Line: Thy breath Subject(s): Language; Horses TROOP HORSES, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through lingering long months idle Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses TROT ALONG, PONY, by MARION EDEY Poem Source Last Line: Turn again home Subject(s): Animals; Horses TROTTING WONDERS OF 1889, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: As o'er old '89 the veil was dropped Subject(s): Animals; Horses TWO HORSES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, in whose grove have we wakened, the bees Last Line: Porpoises plunging like the necks of horses Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Jackals TWO-BITS, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: Where the shimmering sands of the desert beat Subject(s): Animals; Horses TZIMIN CHAAK, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, sweet horse, gather your resting bones Last Line: You and I, gallop wild with the wind Subject(s): Mexico; Horses; Cortes, Hernando (1485-1547) UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers UNDERTAKER'S HORSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eldest son bestrides him Subject(s): Animals; Horses UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WITH HORSE, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: It's how birds mimic the horse's mane, strung in the dead elm Last Line: Maybe the horse is the point of this, the only thing not left Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nature; Women UNOS CABALLOS, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: There are several horses grazing in the field Last Line: In their obliviousness of it, grazing there Subject(s): Animals; Horses UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I tell thee, jack, thou'st given the king" Last Line: By carding and dice Subject(s): "animals;gifts & Giving;horses;scotland - Relations With England;suckling, John (1609-1642); USED UP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the new-dropped colts in the time when I was a boy Last Line: Into the earth Subject(s): Animals; Coyotes; Donkeys; Horses; Burros VACANT STALL, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I went into the barn - the west was red Last Line: And feel your velvet nose against my cheek? Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses VENUS AND ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen. Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VEXATIONS OF THE THINKER, by CRAIG BURNETT Poem Source First Line: The knight has lost his horse. Many Last Line: The light in the window was like green wax Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights And Knighthood WAR GOD'S HORSE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sm the turquoise woman's son Last Line: I am everlasting and peaceful. %I stand for my horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses WAR GOD'S HORSE SONG: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am the turqioise woman's son Last Line: I am everlasting and peaceful %I stand for my horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses WHAT CONSTITUTES A 'TEAM' IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life flows quite smoothly through our house Last Line: "as ride around in half a ""team." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Vermont WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAID AT THE POINT-TO-POINT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had a good bump round, my little horse Last Line: And anyhow I've had a good bump round. Subject(s): Animals; Horses WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN STRUCTURE FAILS RHYME ATTEMPTS TO COME TO THE RESCUE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old horse dies slow Last Line: Refuge of his dreams Subject(s): Horses; Death WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet Last Line: "back!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Funerals; Hearses; Horses; Dead, The; Burials WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Last Line: They are so silent, they are in another world Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence WHITE HORSE, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White horse he was, to her black foal Last Line: To a tree she curled Subject(s): Horses; Racism WHITE HORSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: 1. This horse, not only tamed but humbled, rests Last Line: Unique and common, never-landing arrow Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Survival WHITE STALLION, by ABUS SALT Poem Source First Line: Pale as the morning star Last Line: Who bridled dawn with the pleiades? %who saddled lightning with the half moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Abu Salt Umayya; Abu I-salt Umayyah Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Night WHO'S RIDING OLD HARLEQUIN NOW?, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are mustering cattle on brigalow vale Last Line: But—who's riding old harlequin now? Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Animals; Horses WILD HORSE OF SERENGETI, by BAHADUR TEJANI Poem Source First Line: With savannahs on our left Last Line: That dented to his supremacy Subject(s): Animals; Horses WILD HORSES - ARIZONA, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: Seeking high shrines of quietude, I found Last Line: Brushing the mane of swift exultant death. Subject(s): Animals; Arizona; Horses WILL FOR MR. BRINE'S MARE, WRITTEN ... WILTSHIRE, 1614, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brine had a mare whosever knew hir Last Line: And I bequeth all other gutts that soe fat and longe %even to john hulber for making a song Subject(s): Animals; Horses WINTER HORSES, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Horses WISCONSIN HORSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step at a time to return Last Line: Woman anger and courage risen as the people's voice again Subject(s): Animals; Horses WITHOUT A SIMILAR CONDITION INCLUDING THIS CONDITION, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father away from the center of power Last Line: Never more than a few feet away %from its friend Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Houses WOODEN HORSE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A real horse is good Last Line: So a fine wooden horse for me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses WORK HORSES, by EDITH NEWLIN CHASE Poem Source First Line: Big strong work horses working every day Last Line: Eat oats, eating hay, munch! Munch! Munch! Subject(s): Animals; Horses YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE, THE HORSE, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Already know what to do Subject(s): Animals; Horses YOUNG CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now rides diego laynez to kiss the good king's hand Last Line: And if their mules behind did stay, with horses they're content Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Horses; Knights And Knighthood YOUNG HORSES, by E. R MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Over the river by gravel and gum Last Line: On hearts that will never know freedom again. Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty ZARAF'S STAR, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking changes as dusk starts to gather Subject(s): Horses; Stars ZEN MANQUE, by JACK LENT Poem Source First Line: Thinking of horses Last Line: And of horses, %I eat burnt toast Subject(s): Animals; Food And Eating; Horses |
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