In the Saddle: A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding

At Aerschot, up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past, And I saw my stout galloper Roland...

She said: This narrow chamber is not for me the place, Said the lady Kunigunde of Kynast! 'Tis pleasanter on horseback, I'll hie me to the chase, Said the lady Kunigunde!

We lay low in the grass on the broad plain levels, Old Revels and I, and my stolen brown bride; And the heavens of blue and the harvest of brown And beautiful clover were welded...

O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea.

"Up rose the sun; the mists were curled Back from the solitary world Which lay around--behind--before: What booted it to traverse o'er Plain, forest, river? Man nor brute, Nor d...

What is it that beams in the bright sunshine, And echoes yet nearer and nearer? And see! how it spreads in a long dark line, And hark! how its horns in the distance combine To i...

There, the castle stood up black, with the red sun at its back,-- _Toll slowly._ Like a sullen smouldering pyre, with a top that flickers fire, When the wind is on its track.

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By this, my panting, but unconquered steed Had thrown his small head backward, and his breath Through the red nostrils burst in labored sighs; I bent above his outstretched neck...