http://halt-near-x.com Horse-related poems and images (more poems than images) en rider@halt-near-x.com Copyright 2008 2008-07-17T01:55:57-06:002008-07-10T04:19:00-06:002008-07-10T03:51:00-06:002008-07-10T03:45:00-06:002008-07-10T03:42:00-06:002008-07-10T03:35:00-06:002008-06-18T00:35:00-06:002008-06-18T00:34:00-06:002008-06-18T00:33:00-06:002008-06-18T00:30:00-06:002008-06-18T00:30:00-06:002008-06-18T00:28:00-06:002008-06-18T00:27:00-06:002008-06-18T00:26:00-06:002008-06-18T00:26:00-06:002008-06-18T00:25:00-06:002008-06-18T00:24:00-06:002008-06-17T05:13:00-06:002008-06-17T05:13:00-06:002008-06-17T05:12:00-06:002008-06-17T05:11:00-06:002008-06-17T05:10:00-06:002008-06-17T05:09:00-06:002008-06-17T05:08:00-06:002008-06-17T05:06:00-06:002008-06-17T05:05:00-06:002008-06-17T05:04:00-06:002008-06-17T05:02:00-06:002008-06-17T05:01:00-06:002008-06-17T05:00:00-06:002008-06-17T04:58:00-06:002008-06-17T04:56:00-06:002008-06-17T04:55:00-06:002008-06-17T04:53:00-06:002008-06-17T01:59:00-06:002008-06-17T01:58:00-06:002008-06-17T01:51:00-06:002008-06-16T02:53:00-06:002008-06-16T02:51:00-06:002008-06-16T02:48:01-06:002008-06-16T02:42:00-06:002008-06-16T02:10:00-06:002008-06-16T01:49:00-06:002008-06-16T01:34:00-06:002008-06-16T01:25:00-06:002008-06-16T00:54:00-06:002008-06-16T00:35:00-06:002008-06-16T00:23:00-06:002008-06-16T00:12:00-06:002008-06-15T23:43:00-06:002008-06-15T23:20:00-06:002008-06-15T22:43:00-06:002008-06-15T21:55:00-06:002008-06-15T20:42:00-06:002008-06-13T05:58:00-06:002008-06-13T05:57:00-06:002008-06-13T05:57:00-06:002008-06-13T05:56:00-06:002008-06-13T05:53:00-06:002008-06-13T05:51:00-06:002008-06-13T05:32:00-06:002008-06-13T05:06:00-06:002008-06-13T04:48:01-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/gallery/item/saint-george-and-the-dragon/ http://halt-near-x.com/gallery/item/saint-george-and-the-dragon/#When:01:55:57Z By Paulo Ucello. Please visit http://halt-near-x.com/gallery/item/saint-george-and-the-dragon/ to view this image. Paintings 2008-07-17T01:55:57-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/fellow-creatures/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/fellow-creatures/#When:04:19:00Z By Bruce Bennett. I pat the horses’ heads as I walk by. They’re gentle beasts, and friendly; they don’t mind. The gesture heartens me. I don’t know why. At first, they… Full Texts, In Praise of the Horse, Poetry 2008-07-10T04:19:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/name-of-horses/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/name-of-horses/#When:03:51:00Z By Donald Hall. All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood for drying through spring and summer, for… Full Texts, Working Horses, In Praise of the Horse, Poetry 2008-07-10T03:51:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/sonnet-xli-having-this-day-my-horse/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/sonnet-xli-having-this-day-my-horse/#When:03:45:00Z By Sir Philip Sidney. Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance Guided so well that I obtain’d the prize, Both by the judgment of the English eyes And of… Full Texts, Minor References, Poetry 2008-07-10T03:45:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/phantom-horsewoman/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/phantom-horsewoman/#When:03:42:00Z By Thomas Hardy. Queer are the ways of a man I know: He comes and stands In a careworn craze, And looks at the sands And in the seaward… Full Texts, Minor References, Poetry 2008-07-10T03:42:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/horses-and-men-in-rain/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/horses-and-men-in-rain/#When:03:35:00Z By Carl Sandburg. Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter’s day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window, And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery… Full Texts, Working Horses, Prose 2008-07-10T03:35:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/all-in-green-my-love-went-riding/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/all-in-green-my-love-went-riding/#When:00:35:00Z By E. E. Cummings. 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… Full Texts, Miscellaneous, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:35:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/i-will-not-change-my-horse-with-any-henry-v/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/i-will-not-change-my-horse-with-any-henry-v/#When:00:34:00Z By William Shakespeare. CONSTABLE.Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day! ORLEANS.You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due. CONSTABLE.It… Full Texts, In Praise of the Horse, Plays 2008-06-18T00:34:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/prologue-to-henry-v/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/prologue-to-henry-v/#When:00:33:00Z By William Shakespeare. CHORUS.Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see… Full Texts, Minor References, Plays 2008-06-18T00:33:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/lady-godiva/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/lady-godiva/#When:00:30:00Z By Lord Alfred Tennyson. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped city’s… Full Texts, Famous Rides, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:30:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/charge-of-the-light-brigade/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/charge-of-the-light-brigade/#When:00:30:00Z By Lord Alfred Tennyson. Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ‘Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge… Full Texts, Horses in War, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:30:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/in-time-of-the-breaking-of-nations/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/in-time-of-the-breaking-of-nations/#When:00:28:00Z By Thomas Hardy. Only a man harrowing clods In a slow, silent walk with an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without… Full Texts, Horses in War, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:28:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/mnemson/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/mnemson/#When:00:27:00Z By Kamau Braithewaite. Summon now the kings of the forest, horn of the elephant, mournful call of the elephant; summon the emirs, kings of the desert, horses caparisoned, beaten gold… Full Texts, Death and Horses, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:27:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/i-hear-an-army-charging-upon-the-land/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/i-hear-an-army-charging-upon-the-land/#When:00:26:00Z By James Joyce. I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the… Full Texts, Horses in War, Minor References, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:26:00-06:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death/#When:00:26:00Z By Emily Dickinson. Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality. We slowly drove—He knew no haste… Full Texts, Death and Horses, Minor References, Poetry 2008-06-18T00:26:00-06:00