{"product_id":"poems-about-horses-isbn-9780307269256","title":"Poems About Horses","description":"A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature’s most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent warhorses to cowboys’ trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil’s \u003ci\u003eAeneid, \u003c\/i\u003eand then see it from a wholly different perspective in Matthea Harvey’s whimsical “Inside the Good Idea.” Longfellow’s Paul Revere defies an empire on the back of a horse, while Shakespeare’s Richard III vainly offers his kingdom for one. Robert Burns’s “Auld Farmer” dotes affectionately on his aging mare, while the mares of the king of Corinth in Paul Muldoon’s “Glaucus” devour their owner. Robert Frost’s little horse stopping by the woods is gently puzzled by human behavior, and Ted Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of horses at dawn: “Grey silent fragments \/ Of a grey silent world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMythical and metaphorical horses cavort alongside vividly real animals in these poems, whether they be humble servants, noble companions, beloved friends, or emblems of the wild beauty of the world beyond our grasp.CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eENTERING THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTED HUGHES \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eWhat Is the Truth?\u003cbr\u003eSOPHIE CABOT BLACK Pulling into Morning \u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL EARL CRAIG Brute Mystic\u003cbr\u003eFERENC JUHÁSZ Birth of the Foal \u003cbr\u003eJEAN VALENTINE Mare and Newborn Foal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHORSE AND RIDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eE. E. CUMMINGS Buffalo Bill ’s \u003cbr\u003eROBERT CREELEY The Rescue \u003cbr\u003eROBERT FROST Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening \u003cbr\u003eANN STANFORD The Four Horsemen \u003cbr\u003eJOHN BUNYAN Upon the Horse and His Rider \u003cbr\u003eANON. ‘Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross’ \u003cbr\u003eLYDIA MARIA CHILD Thanksgiving Day \u003cbr\u003ePHILIP SIDNEY Sonnet XLI: Having This Day My Horse \u003cbr\u003ePHILIP SIDNEY Astrophel and Stella XLIX \u003cbr\u003eLOUISE GLÜCK Horse \u003cbr\u003eRICHARD WILBUR The Ride\u003cbr\u003eJAMES WRIGHT The Horse \u003cbr\u003eVICKI HEARNE Riding a Nervous Horse \u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eVenus and Adonis \u003cbr\u003eBASIL BUNTING ‘That filly couldn’t carry a rider’\u003cbr\u003eTRADITIONAL Yankee Doodle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHORSES IN MIND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWITTER BYNNER Horses\u003cbr\u003eSYLVIA PLATH Words \u003cbr\u003eTED HUGHES A Dream of Horses \u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL LONGLEY Ponies \u003cbr\u003eMARK STRAND Two Horses\u003cbr\u003eKAY RYAN All Shall Be Restored \u003cbr\u003eSTANLEY PLUMLY Horse in the Cage \u003cbr\u003ePAUL MULDOON Horses \u003cbr\u003eCHARLIE SMITH Rider \u003cbr\u003eROGER MCGOUGH A Cat, a Horse and the Sun \u003cbr\u003eSYLVIA PLATH The Death of Myth-Making \u003cbr\u003ePAUL MULDOON Medley for Morin Khur \u003cbr\u003eMATTHEA HARVEY The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away \u003cbr\u003eALICIA RABINS Ars Poetica \u003cbr\u003eMONICA FAMBROUGH I Love Them as I’m Defying Them\u003cbr\u003eCARL PHILLIPS The Truth \u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL EARL CRAIG Prayer \u003cbr\u003eEZRA D. FELDMAN A Progression of Scents \u003cbr\u003eJASON BREDLE The Horse’s Adventure\u003cbr\u003eERICA EHRENBERG The Bramble \u003cbr\u003eSTEPHANIE GEHRING Selbstgespräch mit Franziskus \u003cbr\u003eCECILY PARKS I Lost My Horse \u003cbr\u003eROBIN BECKER \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Horse Fair \u003cbr\u003eGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI A Love Supreme \u003cbr\u003eGARY SNYDER Riprap \u003cbr\u003eLAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ‘Don’t let that horse’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eON THE FARM, OFF TO THE HUNT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJAMES DICKEY The Dusk of Horses\u003cbr\u003eGARY SNYDER Hay for the Horses \u003cbr\u003eJANE KENYON For the Night \u003cbr\u003eMAXINE KUMIN In the Upper Pasture \u003cbr\u003eSEAMUS HEANEY Follower \u003cbr\u003eSEAMUS HEANEY Night-Piece \u003cbr\u003eOGDEN NASH The Solitary Huntsman \u003cbr\u003eTED HUGHES ‘The huntsmen, on top of their swaying horse-towers’ \u003cbr\u003eJOHN HAINES Pawnee Dust \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWAR HORSES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eVIRGIL Æneas Tells of the Trojan Horse \u003cbr\u003eMATTHEA HARVEY Inside the Good Idea \u003cbr\u003eHOMER Achilles Over the Trench \u003cbr\u003eVIRGIL Knowing About Horses\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eHenry V\u003cbr\u003ePAUL MULDOON Glaucus\u003cbr\u003eANON. War God’s Horse Song \u003cbr\u003eALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Charge of the Light Brigade \u003cbr\u003eHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Paul Revere’s Ride \u003cbr\u003eTORQUATO TASSO A Face-Off in the Crusades \u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS CAMPBELL Hohenlinden \u003cbr\u003eDONALD HALL O Flodden Field\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eRichard III \u003cbr\u003eEAVAN BOLAND The War Horse \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCOWBOYS AND HORSES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJOHN HAINES Ghost Town \u003cbr\u003eANON. \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Jolly Cowboy\u003cbr\u003eFRANK DESPREZ \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eLasca\u003cbr\u003eTOM T. HALL Faster Horses\u003cbr\u003eTRADITIONAL The Old Chisholm Trail\u003cbr\u003eBADGER CLARK Ridin’ \u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL Science Came West \u003cbr\u003eTRADITIONAL Git Along Little Dogies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEQUINE ENCOUNTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eD. H. LAWRENCE The White Horse\u003cbr\u003eTED HUGHES The Horses \u003cbr\u003eSIMON ARMITAGE Horses, M62\u003cbr\u003eJAMES WRIGHT A Blessing \u003cbr\u003eJANE HIRSHFIELD Heat \u003cbr\u003eSOPHIE CABOT BLACK In High Country\u003cbr\u003eRIHAKU Taking Leave of a Friend \u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI ALEKSEEVICH ZABOLOTSKY The Face of the Horse \u003cbr\u003eJAMES WRIGHT Two Horses Playing in the Orchard \u003cbr\u003eCARL SANDBURG Bronzes \u003cbr\u003eSARAH ORNE JEWETT A Country Boy in Winter \u003cbr\u003eROBERT WRIGLEY Kissing a Horse \u003cbr\u003eJENNIFER GROTZ The Ocracoke Ponies\u003cbr\u003eROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Horses in Snow\u003cbr\u003eJAMES WRIGHT Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota\u003cbr\u003eROGER MCGOUGH The Horse’s Mouth \u003cbr\u003eCAROL FROST All Summer Long \u003cbr\u003eROBINSON JEFFERS All the Little Hoof-Prints \u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Horse\u003cbr\u003eWALTER DE LA MARE The Listeners \u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS HARDY No Buyers\u003cbr\u003eJOHN HEWITT The King’s Horses \u003cbr\u003eRICHARD WILBUR ‘When in your \u003ci\u003eneighborhood \u003c\/i\u003eyou hear a \u003ci\u003eneigh\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCELEBRATION AND REMEMBRANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEDWARD DYSON The Old Whim Horse\u003cbr\u003eROGER MCGOUGH Poor Old Dead Horses \u003cbr\u003eJAMES WHITCOMB RILEY The Hoss\u003cbr\u003eROBERT W. SERVICE Winnie\u003cbr\u003eROBERT BURNS The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare, Maggie\u003cbr\u003eKATE BARNES A Mare \u003cbr\u003ePHILIP LEVINE The Horse \u003cbr\u003eSOPHIE CABOT BLACK When It Was Time \u003cbr\u003eJOHN PECK A Twenty-Fourth Poem About Horses \u003cbr\u003eNORMAN DUBIE Danse Macabre\u003cbr\u003eMAXINE KUMIN Seeing the Bones \u003cbr\u003eEDWIN MUIR The Horses \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Authors \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmela Ciuraru \u003c\/b\u003eis the editor of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthologies \u003ci\u003eFatherhood, Motherhood, Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Poets, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDoggerel: Poems About Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn.FOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIcons of power, speed, and civilization since they were first domesticated thousands of years ago, horses are among the most majestic creatures to wander the earth. The extent to which humans’ lives have been enriched by these animals is immeasurable: many of our most basic habits of work, play, transport, and warfare would have been impossible without them. It is no wonder that this profound relationship has inspired countless works of art, from ancient times to the present. This collection is a sampling across the centuries of the ways horses have been contemplated and celebrated in poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe horse has served as warrior, laborer, mail carrier, competitive athlete, rodeo entertainer, friend, and—above al—object of wonder. In this anthology’s opening section, ‘Entering the World’, Ted Hughes offers a tender evocation of a foal’s first steps on the way to becoming ‘perfect Horse’: ‘His nose \/ Downy and magnetic, draws him, incredulous, \/ Towards his mother. And the world is warm \/ And careful and gentle. Touch by touch \/ Everything fits him together.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe following section, ‘Horse and Rider’, focuses on the elemental human–horse connection, with poems by E. E. Cummings, Basil Bunting, and Richard Wilbur, along with perhaps the most famous contemporary poem about a journey on horseback—Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening—in which a horse, for a change, wonders at human mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Horses in Mind’ ventures into abstract and dreamlike manifestations.For Witter Bynner and Sylvia Plath, untamed horses are apt metaphors for the elusiveness of language. Paul Muldoon ponders ‘if I’m a man dreaming I’m a plowhorse \/ or a great plowhorse dreaming I’m a man.’ And Carl Phillips imagines that a ‘horse is entering \/ the sea, and the sea \/ holds it.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere, horses are honored for their pastoral and hunting work by poets such as Gary Snyder, Maxine Kumin, and Seamus Heaney. Poems by Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and others commemorate the horse’s role in battle, and a brief section touches on the colorful tradition of cowboy poetry on the American frontier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in ‘Equine Encounters’ describe revelatory meetings between our species, and in the final section poets honor the horse in memory and in grief. ‘They have pulled our ploughs and borne our load,’ writes Edwin Muir. ‘But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts.’ Thanks to the amazing bond we have known with horses throughout history, ‘Our life is changed; their coming our beginning.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Carmela Ciuraru","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300330262757,"sku":"NP9780307269256","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307269256.jpg?v=1767734907","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/poems-about-horses-isbn-9780307269256","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}