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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOLD CHAMPION, by JEAN RASEY
First Line: Bold champion could stir your racing blood
Last Line: She'd won a derby only yesterday.
Subject(s): Horse Racing
First Line: Bold champion could stir your racing blood
Last Line: She'd won a derby only yesterday.
Subject(s): Horse Racing
Bold Champion could stir your racing blood
By walking. There was something in her stride
As if the pasture trail might turn out wide.
Its ranging tread, too often deep in mud,
Surprised her even yet. And when a flood
Of other hoofbeats came, the racer eyed
The pasture still unreconciled, then shied
And lunged with more than one resounding thud,
As if imagining her sprint could bring
The galleries to the hillside, tier on tier,
And to the trail beneath, the racing-way.
She came to mend an injury one spring
But anyone could see, to watch her rear,
She'd won a Derby only yesterday.
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