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In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’	Thomas Hardy	Jun 17, 2008
Mnemson	Kamau Braithewaite	Jun 17, 2008
I hear an army charging upon the land	James Joyce	Jun 17, 2008
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	Emily Dickinson	Jun 17, 2008
Sheridan’s Ride	Thomas Buchanan Read	Jun 17, 2008
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jun 17, 2008
The Highwayman	Alfred Noyes	Jun 16, 2008
The Goose Girl	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Jun 16, 2008
Conscientious Objector	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Jun 16, 2008
Huntsman, What Quarry?	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Jun 16, 2008
The Iron Horse	Henry David Thoreau	Jun 16, 2008
At Grass	Philip Larkin	Jun 16, 2008
The Horses	Ted Hughes	Jun 16, 2008
Ode to the Horse	Ronald Duncan	Jun 16, 2008
On Horsemanship	Xenophon	Jun 16, 2008

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Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength? Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength;  he goes out to meet the weapons. He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; He does not turn back from the sword. Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin. With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. When the trumpet sounds, he says `Aha!’ …

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