A COLLECTION OF POEMS ON HORSEBACK-RIDING

"A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him"

Lord Herbert of Cherbury

BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1882 Copyright, 1882, By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

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CONTENTS.

Page Description of a Horse. Venus and Adonis 1 A Day's Ride: A Life's Analogy. The Spectator 2 On Horseback. E. Paxton Hood 3 The Horseback Ride. Sara Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) 4 An Evening Ride. Owen Innsly 7 The Queen's Ride. T. B. Aldrich 8 The Last Ride together. Robert Browning 9 Riding together. William Morris 13 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere. Alfred Tennyson 15 The King of Denmark's Ride. Hon. Caroline Norton 17 Rhyme of the Duchess May. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 19 Irmingard's Escape. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 37 William and Helen. Bürger's "Leonore." Translated by Sir Walter Scott 42 The Greeting on Kynast. Rückert. Translated by C. T. Brooks 52 Harras, the Bold Leaper. Karl Theodor Körner. Translated by G. F. Richardson 57 The Knight's Leap. Charles Kingsley 60 The Leap of Roushan Beg. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 61 Annan Water 64 [Pg iv]Thomas the Rhymer 66 The Greek Gnome. Robert Buchanan 70 Friar Pedro's Ride. Bret Harte 73 Tam O'Shanter. Robert Burns 79 The Wild Huntsman. Bürger's Wilde Jäger. Tr. by Walter Scott 86

Lützow's Wild Chase. Theodor Körner 94 The Erl-King. Walter Scott 96 Mazeppa's Ride. Byron 98 The Giaour's Ride. Byron 110 The Norseman's Ride. Bayard Taylor 113 Boot and Saddle. Robert Browning 116 The Cavalier's Escape. Walter Thornbury 116 King James's Ride. Walter Scott 118 Deloraine's Ride. Walter Scott 119 Godiva. Alfred Tennyson 124 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Robert Browning 127 The Landlord's Tale. H. W. Longfellow 130 Sheridan's Ride. Thomas Buchanan Read 135 Kearny at Seven Pines. Edmund Clarence Stedman 138 The Ride of Collins Graves. John Boyle O'Reilly 140 A Tale of Providence. Isaac R. Pennybacker 143 Kit Carson's Ride. Joaquin Miller 149 Taming the Wild Horse. W. G. Simms 155 Chiquita. Bret Harte 157 Bay Billy. Frank H. Gassaway 160 Widderin's Race. Paul Hamilton Hayne 164 The Diverting History of John Gilpin. William Cowper 174 Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian. Oliver Wendell Holmes 184

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DESCRIPTION OF A HORSE.

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THE HORSEBACK RIDE.

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AN EVENING RIDE.

FROM GLASHÜTTE TO MÜGELN IN SAXONY.

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THE QUEEN'S RIDE.

AN INVITATION.

SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE.

A FRAGMENT.

WILLIAM AND HELEN.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Busk—to dress. Boune—to prepare one's self for a journey.

THE GREETING ON KYNAST.

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HARRAS, THE BOLD LEAPER.

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