Texts & Excerpts :: In Praise of the Horse
| Title | Author | Added |
|---|---|---|
| The Ballad of the Drover | Henry Lawson | Jun 16, 2008 |
| A Blessing | James Wright | Jun 16, 2008 |
| The Blood Horse | Barry Cornwall | Apr 2, 2009 |
| The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken | Vachel Lindsey | Jun 15, 2008 |
| Chiquita | Bret Harte | Apr 4, 2009 |
| Do you give the horse his might? | Anonymous | Jun 15, 2008 |
| Fellow Creatures | Bruce Bennett | Jul 9, 2008 |
| I will not change my horse with any… (Henry V) | William Shakespeare | Jun 17, 2008 |
| the little horse is newLY | E. E. Cummings | Jun 16, 2008 |
| Name of Horses | Donald Hall | Jul 9, 2008 |
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Chiquita
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! Stady—ah, will you, you vixen!
Whoa! I say. Jack, trot her out; let the gentleman look at her paces.
Morgan!—she ain’t nothing else, and I’ve got the papers to prove it.
Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won’t buy her.
Briggs of Tuolumne owned her. Did you know Briggs of Tuolumne?
Busted hisself in White Pine, and blew out his …