Today’s horse poetry is by Friedrich von Schiller and I’m not sure when it was published but he lived from 1759-1805.
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Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel
Today’s horse poetry is by William Wordsworth and was published in The Complete Poetical Works in 1888.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Today’s horse poetry is by Robert Frost and was published in The Poetry of Robert Frost in 1923.
Many People Come to Visit and Bring Wine After I Fell Off My Horse, Drunk
Today’s bit of horse poetry is by far the oldest I’ve shared so far. It was written by the Chinese poet Du Fu (a.k.a. Tu Fu) who lived from 712 to 770 AD.
Strathcona’s Horse
Today’s horse poetry is by William Henry Drummond and was published in The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond in 1912.
Canterbury Tales – The Reeve
Perhaps one of the oldest bits of horses in poetry I’ve featured, this is a section of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (written at the end of the 14th century) titled The Reeve.
Canterbury Tales – The Monk
Perhaps one of the oldest bits of horses in poetry I’ve featured, this is a section of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (written at the end of the 14th century) titled The Monk.
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Excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Today’s bit of horse isn’t actually a poem, but I thought it belonged anyway. It’s an excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There written by Lewis Carroll in 1871.
Tam o’ Shanter
Today’s poem is an epic written by Robert Burns in 1790. In it Burns paints an unforgettable picture of the drinking class in a Scotch town called Ayr.
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Boot and Saddle
Today’s poetry was written by Robert Browning and was published in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 in 1895.
Boot and Saddle
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
Brightens the blue from its silvery grey,
(Chorus) “Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!”
Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you’d say;
Many’s the friend there, will listen and pray
“God’s luck to gallants that strike up the lay,
(Chorus) “Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!”
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At Galway Races
Today’s horse racing poetry was written by W. B. Yeats and published in Responsibilities and Other Poems in 1916.
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Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
Today’s bit of horse in poetry was composed by William Wordsworth in 1798. While it isn’t about horses, they do play a part in the tale he weaves.
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the lover’s ear alone,
What once to me befell.
When she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent my way,
Beneath an evening-moon.
Upon the moon I fixed my eye,
All over the wide lea;
With quickening pace my horse drew nigh
Those paths so dear to me.
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