http://halt-near-x.com Horse-related poems and images (more poems than images) en rider@halt-near-x.com Copyright 2009 2009-04-05T03:14:03+00:002009-04-03T14:00:39+00:002009-04-02T14:00:52+00:002009-04-01T14:00:39+00:002009-03-27T03:36:40+00:002008-07-17T01:55:57+00:002008-07-10T04:19:00+00:002008-07-10T03:51:00+00:002008-07-10T03:45:00+00:002008-07-10T03:42:00+00:002008-07-10T03:35:00+00:002008-06-18T00:35:00+00:002008-06-18T00:34:00+00:002008-06-18T00:33:00+00:002008-06-18T00:30:00+00:002008-06-18T00:30:00+00:002008-06-18T00:28:00+00:002008-06-18T00:27:00+00:002008-06-18T00:26:00+00:002008-06-18T00:26:00+00:002008-06-18T00:25:00+00:002008-06-18T00:24:00+00:002008-06-17T05:13:00+00:002008-06-17T05:13:00+00:002008-06-17T05:12:00+00:002008-06-17T05:11:00+00:002008-06-17T05:10:00+00:002008-06-17T05:09:00+00:002008-06-17T05:08:00+00:002008-06-17T05:06:00+00:002008-06-17T05:05:00+00:002008-06-17T05:04:00+00:002008-06-17T05:02:00+00:002008-06-17T05:01:00+00:002008-06-17T05:00:00+00:002008-06-17T04:58:00+00:002008-06-17T04:56:00+00:002008-06-17T04:55:00+00:002008-06-17T04:53:00+00:002008-06-17T01:59:00+00:002008-06-17T01:58:00+00:002008-06-17T01:51:00+00:002008-06-16T02:53:00+00:002008-06-16T02:51:00+00:002008-06-16T02:48:01+00:002008-06-16T02:42:00+00:002008-06-16T02:10:00+00:002008-06-16T01:49:00+00:002008-06-16T01:34:00+00:002008-06-16T01:25:00+00:002008-06-16T00:54:00+00:002008-06-16T00:35:00+00:002008-06-16T00:23:00+00:002008-06-16T00:12:00+00:002008-06-15T23:43:00+00:002008-06-15T23:20:00+00:002008-06-15T22:43:00+00:002008-06-15T21:55:00+00:002008-06-15T20:42:00+00:002008-06-13T05:58:00+00:002008-06-13T05:57:00+00:002008-06-13T05:57:00+00:002008-06-13T05:56:00+00:002008-06-13T05:53:00+00:002008-06-13T05:51:00+00:002008-06-13T05:32:00+00:002008-06-13T05:06:00+00:002008-06-13T04:48:01+00:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/chiquita/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/chiquita/#When:03:14:03Z By Bret Harte. Beautiful! Sire, you may say so. Thar isn’t her match in the country. Is thar, old gall—Chiquita, my darling, my beauty! Feel of that neck, sir—thar’s velvet! Who!… Full Texts, Famous Rides, In Praise of the Horse, Poetry 2009-04-05T03:14:03+00:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/bavieca/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/bavieca/#When:14:00:39Z By John Gibson Lockhart. The King looked on him kindly, as on a vassal true; Then to the King Ruy Diaz spake, after reverence due: “O King, the thing is shameful, that… Full Texts, Famous Rides, Poetry 2009-04-03T14:00:39+00:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/blood-horse/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/blood-horse/#When:14:00:52Z By Barry Cornwall. Gamarra is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of fathers known;… Full Texts, In Praise of the Horse, Poetry 2009-04-02T14:00:52+00:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/alexander-taming-bucephalus/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/alexander-taming-bucephalus/#When:14:00:39Z By Park Benjamin. “Bring forth the steed!” It was a level plain Broad and unbroken as the mighty sea, When in their prison caves the winds lie chained. There Philip… Full Texts, Famous Rides, Poetry 2009-04-01T14:00:39+00:00 http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/picture/ http://halt-near-x.com/texts/item/picture/#When:03:36:40Z By William Shakespeare. Look, when a painter would surpass the life In limming out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature’s workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living… Full Texts, In Praise of the Horse 2009-03-27T03:36:40+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00 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+00:00