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| Searching... Subject: HORSE RACING Matches Found: 43 A DAY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride Last Line: "of walker's fight with thunderbolt, that ride for life and death" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;horse Racing;hunting; "dead, The;hunters; A FOLK SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hitch up honey for the Subject(s): Horse Racing AT GALWAY RACES (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There where the course is Last Line: That ride upon horses. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Horse Racing AT GALWAY RACES (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Horse Racing AT GALWAY RACES (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is Last Line: And we find hearteners among men %that ride upon horses Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Horse Racing BARBER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wield the razor, sling hot towels and talk Last Line: I love life. Who doesn't? Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing BOLD CHAMPION, by JEAN RASEY Poem Text First Line: Bold champion could stir your racing blood Last Line: She'd won a derby only yesterday. Subject(s): Horse Racing DERBY GLASS, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: And when the last horse trembled in Last Line: Make it to the gate, nurse a coke? Subject(s): Horse Racing GALWAY RACES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It's there you'll see confectioners with sugar sticks and dainties Last Line: "but faite and hospitality, inducing a fresh acquaintance" Subject(s): Horse Racing GWINE TO RUN ALL NIGHT, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De camptown ladies sing dis song Last Line: Oh! Doo dah day! Variant Title(s): De Camptown Races Subject(s): Horse Racing HOME YEARNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We're writing to-night to the old, old home Last Line: And we're wiring for carfare home! Subject(s): Gambling; Homesickness; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting HOW SALVATOR WON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone Last Line: And hang out 2.05 in the gaze of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Horse Racing HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the famous trotting-ground Last Line: A horse can trot, for all he's old. Subject(s): Horse Racing JANGLING JINGLES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We bet on a champion boxer-- Last Line: And hyrant—oh, he's running yet! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Gambling; Horse Racing; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Wagering; Betting LEITH RACES, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In july month, ae bonny morn Last Line: Wi' straiks thir days! Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Horse Racing; Summer LOOSE LUNATICS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The baseball fan gets up and loudly yowls-- Last Line: He's dippy! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Baseball; Football; Horse Racing; Sports LORD HIPPO, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord hippo suffered fearful loss Last Line: To say that he backed the winner! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting LOVE SONNET OF A TRACK FIEND, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Baby, I know you think that I Last Line: I'll make the rest look just like also-rans! Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Track Athletics; Wagering; Betting; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago at aqueduct, my friend joe, a marxist, bed on a horse Last Line: Gift, a nag that for a while gave some of us hope, like marxism in %the third Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Horse Racing; Luck MONEENEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This is the tale of one who lived and suffered years ago Last Line: And a native boy who gave his life when safety was in sight Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Splendid in destiny Last Line: Unrocked in realms of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUS, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water is best, but gold blazing like fire Last Line: With victors, foremost in every skull among the hellenes Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Best of all things is water; but gold, like a gleaming fire Last Line: Let it be mine to stand beside you %in victory, for my skil l at the forefront of the hellenes Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even as water is most excellent, while god, like fire flaming Last Line: And be foremost in the lore of song among hellenes in every land Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. PRAISE OF HIERON'S OLYMPIC VICTORY, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each element to water yields Last Line: Proclaim'd unrival'd in my song. Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing ON A RACE-HORSE, by GIROLAMO PRETI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the air, rival of winds when high Last Line: But that he knows thy speed would shorten day. Subject(s): Horse Racing POLYHYMNIA: FRAGMENTS, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prov'd themselves from pegasus derived Last Line: Perchance, as youthful now as I was then. Subject(s): Horse Racing; Knights & Knighthood; Youth PYTHIAN ODES: 2. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Magnificent city, syracuse, precinct of ares Last Line: Is a slippery path. May I %please and consort with noble men Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing RIGHT AT THE TRACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The moon shines bright upon the trampled course Last Line: You broke, too, pal? Then let's start walking home! Subject(s): Horse Racing SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we drove one day through the lignum swamp Last Line: Is the old grey solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horse Racing; Horses THE GRAVE OF A NIGGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'yes, it's true that's the grave of a nigger" Last Line: Where foam-waters gurgled their way.' Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;family Life;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;relatives;heroes;heroines; THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's another sorry tale about class in america, I'm sure Subject(s): Horse Racing; Fear; Panic; Fire THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: JULY. GOODWORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the high breezes of the goodwood down Subject(s): Goodwood, England; Archer, Fred (1857-1886); Horse Racing THE JUDGE'S DECISION, by J. W. KEVIN Poem Text First Line: Twas years ago on the barcoo when flashy jockey clubs Last Line: "der vinner of dis (hic) handicap, he vos (hic) a tampd piebald!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ferres, Arthur Subject(s): Horse Racing; Judges THE TIME TO GET READY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jockey, little horse-jockey, riding to the race Last Line: "expecting to get ready in the middle of the strife." Subject(s): Horse Racing THE TIP, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The eager tout, while prowling for the news Last Line: That wretched animal is running yet! Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting THE TOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There are a hundred ways in which he strives to Last Line: And you can trust him—sure you can—just one time out of fifty! Subject(s): Duplicity; Gambling; Horse Racing; Deceit; Wagering; Betting THREE ELEGIES: 1. EARL SCHIEB 1907-1992, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Last frieday, earl schieb's horse, 'cause I'm leaving Last Line: That possibility of any car, any color Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horse Racing; Horses TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by Subject(s): Horse Racing TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by Last Line: And you may have seen a monkey on a greyhound. 'but tom fool...' Subject(s): Horse Racing WHEN SANDE WAS OUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What? Sande down, and laid upon the shelf? Last Line: A splendid rider, and a gentleman! Subject(s): Horse Racing; Jockeys; Sande, Earl (1898-1968) WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants WRITTEN AT WINCHESTER ON TUESSAY THE 15TH JULY 1817, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winchester races first took their beginning Last Line: The curse upon venta is july in showers Subject(s): Horse Racing; Weather |
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