Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT GALWAY RACES (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There where the course is Last Line: That ride upon horses. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Horse Racing | ||||||||
There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind: We, too, had good attendance once, Hearers and hearteners of the work; Aye, horsemen for companions, Before the merchant and the clerk Breathed on the world with timid breath. Sing on: somewhere at some new moon, We'll learn that sleeping is not death, Hearing the whole earth change its tune, Its flesh being wild, and it again Crying aloud as the racecourse is, And we find hearteners among men That ride upon horses. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA by MARIANNE MOORE THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS by LINDA GREGERSON POLYHYMNIA: FRAGMENTS by WILLIAM BASSE THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: JULY. GOODWORD by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT LEITH RACES by ROBERT FERGUSSON GWINE TO RUN ALL NIGHT by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE JUDGE'S DECISION by J. W. KEVIN SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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