Horse Poetry The Equinest is proud to feature horse poetry from some truly gifted poets. Arabian Horse Proverb – Author Unknown Bedouin Horse Legend – Author Unknown For the Want of a Horseshoe Nail – Author Unknown Boot and Saddle – Robert Browning Tam o’Shanter – Robert Burns Canterbury Tales, The Monk – Chaucer All in Green My Love Went Riding – E.E. Cummings Excerpt from Dead Souls – Nikolai V. Gogol I Know Great Horses Live Again – Stanley Harrison How The Old Horse Won The Bet – Oliver Wendell Holmes Excerpt from The Ballad of the King’s Jest – Rudyard Kipling The Undertaker’s Horse – Rudyard Kipling Excerpt from The Love Chase – James Sheridan Knowles Excerpt from Mazeppa – Lord Byron The Arab’s Farewell to His Steed – Caroline Norton Fair Girls And Gray Horses – William Ogilvie Four in Hand – William Ogilvie How The Chestnut Horse Came Home – William Ogilvie The Hooves of Horses – William Ogilvie His Epitaph – William Ogilvie The Riding of the Rebel – William Ogilvie When Horses Are Saddled for Love – William Ogilvie Where the Brumbies Come to Water – William Ogilvie The Man From Snowy River – A.B. Paterson Excerpt from Venus and Adonis – William Shakespeare Excerpt from Henry V – William Shakespeare The Horse Would Run For No Reason – Rabindranath Tagore Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known – William Wadsworth Bless the Hoss – James Whitcomb At Galway Races – W. B. Yeats Horse Art
