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| Searching... Subject: RACING Matches Found: 89 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'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'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 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'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'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 HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text 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 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; MR. JUDD AND HIS SNAIL, A SORRY TALE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source 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'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 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 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 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'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'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 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'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 |
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