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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARIOTEER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my constantine, why sleep in bronze? Awaken"
Last Line: "fatherless, by your master hand forsaken"
Subject(s): Chariot Racing


A DAY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride
Last Line: "of walker's fight with thunderbolt, that ride for life and death"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;horse Racing;hunting; "dead, The;hunters;


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


A SNAIL'S DERBY, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in this tuscan garden, noon's huge ball
Last Line: Wait but death's night; and, lo, the great ball lowers.
Subject(s): Racing; Snails


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


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


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


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


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


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


DEATH OF RICHARD BEATTIE-SEAMAN IN BELGIAN GRAND PRIX, 1939, by TONY+(1) CURTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trapped in the wreckage by his broken arm
Last Line: A quiet with, just perceptible, engines roaring %as at the start of a great race
Subject(s): Automobile 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


DO THEY KNOW?, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do they know? At the turn to the straight
Last Line: Do you think they don't know?
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Racing


ELECTRA: A CHARIOT-RACE, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To delphi, to apollo's festal games
Last Line: It was a sight sadder than I have seen.
Subject(s): Chariot Racing


ELECTRA: IMAGINARY CHARIOT RACE, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They took their stand where the appointed judges
Last Line: To find that heritage—a tomb.
Subject(s): Chariot Racing


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 39. WON BY SUBTILTY, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life and a dearer mistress is the prize
Last Line: And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Courtship; Hippomenes (mythology); Racing


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


FROM AN ANTIQUE ISLAND: 1, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was ten I didn't want to be president
Last Line: It stretches from there to now
Subject(s): Automobile Racing


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


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


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


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


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


HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole
Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk!
Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


ISTHMIAN ODE FOR AGLAUS OF ATHENS (FOOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fame, herald of virtue
Last Line: Lift aglaus' rising roll of glory
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; 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


KAL. APR., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate your vulgarian ill-mannered
Last Line: Do lend me an as!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Boats; Latin Language; Racing


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


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


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


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


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


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


MR. JUDD AND HIS SNAIL, A SORRY TALE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I offer one small bit of advice that billy graham could write a whole column on
Last Line: Never trust an egyptian or an amoeba
Subject(s): Racing


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


NORTH FROM DEADWOOD, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm driving home through our national grasslands
Last Line: Just standing there and weeping
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Driving And Drivers; Indianapolis, Indiana; Travel


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


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clio showering gifts that charm
Last Line: Of the nightingale of ceos
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece


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 ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brilliant daughter of time and night
Last Line: Pierced through chaerolas' barrowing tomb
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lauds to lachon %from zeus great lord
Last Line: That feeds the fame of ceos
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; 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


ONE FOR MONEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And four to go
Subject(s): Racing


ONE TO MAKE READY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And away goes the mare
Subject(s): Racing


OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


ORIGIN OF MY SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one should blame me for the lost race yet
Last Line: Your heart is burned to ashes!
Subject(s): Igede (african People); Racing


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


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 ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always apollo the blond
Last Line: And a heaping share of the best parts?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece


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


RACE STARTING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "bell horses, bell horses / what time of day?"
Last Line: Three and away
Subject(s): Racing


RACER'S WIDOW, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elements have merged into solicitude
Last Line: As he lies draining there. And see %how even he did not get to keep that lovely body
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Automobile Racing; Widows And Widowers


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


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


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


SHEARING AT CASTLEREAGH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bell is set a - ringing, and the engine gives a toot
Last Line: Another bale of golden fleece is branded 'castlereagh'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Bells; Racing; Sheep


SOAP BOX DERBY QUEEN, by LAURA SULLIVAN-HACKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was soap box derby queen 1971 in a silver pipe cleaner crown
Last Line: The queen not for speed but for arriving, sash and tiara intact
Subject(s): Girls; 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 ACE OF THE RACE, by WAYNE B. WALTERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Speed, nerve and thrills galore
Last Line: The end of a perfect day.
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Sports; Victory; Race Car Driving


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 BOAT RACE, by ERNESTINE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out at sea, just where the rougher blue
Last Line: The resurrected romance of the sea.
Subject(s): Boats; Racing


THE CHARIOTEER'S GRAVE, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: In tarragona where the waves
Last Line: "would I had died within the circus cheer."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling
Last Line: Sack for eternity.
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness


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


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


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


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


THE 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 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 RACING CARS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great cars careening come roaring round the curve
Last Line: Throbbed away through chaos that claimed the dragon breed!
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Sports; Race Car Driving


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 2. TO THERON OF AGRAGAS, VICTOR IN THE CHARIOT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O song! Whose voice the harp obeys
Last Line: Go -- reckon up the sand! --
Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Victory


UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please be the driver bearing down behind
Last Line: And see you face to face, and say, 'my lord!'
Variant Title(s): Please Be The Driver Bearing Down Behin
Subject(s): Automobiles; Racing


WAR HORSE II, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The next time I see my old car is in the movies. Yes. You won't believe
Last Line: Until the moment he left
Subject(s): Automobile 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


WISDOM OF HAFIZ, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My son, if you go to the races to battle with ikey and mo
Last Line: The very best tip in the world is to see the commission go on!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Racing; Wisdom


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