A COLLECTION OF

POEMS ON HORSEBACK-RIDING

"A good rider on a good horse is as much above
himself and others as the world can make him"

Lord Herbert of Cherbury

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A DAY'S RIDE: A LIFE'S ANALOGY. The Spectator.

ON HORSEBACK. E. Paxton Hood

2

3

THE HORSEBACK RIDE.

Sara Jane Lippincott (Grace

Greenwood).

4

8

Robert Browning

9

13

AN EVENING RIDE. Owen Innsly
THE QUEEN'S RIDE. T. B. Aldrich
THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER.

RIDING TOGETHER. William Morris

SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE. Alfred Ten-

THE KING OF DENMARK'S RIDE. Hon. Caroline Nor-

17

19

RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY. Elizabeth Barrett

Browning

IRMINGARD'S ESCAPE. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 37

WILLIAM AND HELEN. Bürger's "Leonore." Trans-
lated by Sir Walter Scott

THE GREETING ON KYNAST. Rückert. Translated by

C. T. Brooks

HARRAS, THE BOLD LEAPER. Karl Theodor Körner.