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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Today’s bit of horse isn’t actually poetry – it’s only one line. However it is one incredibly poetic line and one worth sharing.
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Today’s horse poetry is quick and lively, written by James Whitcomb Riley. I’m not sure when he wrote this, but he lived from 1849-1916.
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Today’s poetry was written by E.E. Cummings and published in Tulips and Chimneys in 1923. This poem is thought to be an allusion to Chaucer’s The Knights Tale.

All in Green My Love Went Riding

All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
the merry deer ran before.

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams
the swift sweet deer
the red rare deer.

Horn at hip went my love riding
riding the echo down
into the silver dawn.
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Today’s poetic bit is an excerpt from Dead Souls written by Nikolai V. Gogol in 1842.
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Today’s inspirational poem is an excerpt from Mazeppa written by Lord Byron in 1819. It’s a long poem and I’ve got another bit to share next week.
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Today’s horse poetry is two amazing lines from The Ballad of the King’s Jest, a much longer piece written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling.
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Today’s horse poetry is an exciting narrative poem written in 1898 by William Ogilvie, a Scottish narrative poet and horse lover.
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Today’s post isn’t necessarily a poem, however the words are poetic enough to call it poetry in my book. Written by Rabindranath Tagore a Bengali poet who lived from 1861-1941.
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Today’s horse poetry is another slightly cheeky one written in 1898 by William Ogilvie, a Scottish narrative poet and horse lover.
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