In the Saddle
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
BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1882 Copyright, 1882, By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
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Description of a Horse. Venus and Adonis [1]
A Day's Ride: A Life's Analogy. The Spectator [2]
On Horseback. E. Paxton Hood [3]
The Horseback Ride. Sara Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) [4]
An Evening Ride. Owen Innsly [7]
The Queen's Ride. T. B. Aldrich [8]
The Last Ride together. Robert Browning [9]
Riding together. William Morris [13]
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere. Alfred Tennyson [15]
The King of Denmark's Ride. Hon. Caroline Norton [17]
Rhyme of the Duchess May. Elizabeth Barrett Browning [19]
Irmingard's Escape. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [37]
William and Helen. Bürger's "Leonore." Translated by Sir Walter Scott [42]
The Greeting on Kynast. Rückert. Translated by C. T. Brooks [52]
Harras, the Bold Leaper. Karl Theodor Körner. Translated by G. F. Richardson [57]
The Knight's Leap. Charles Kingsley [60]
The Leap of Roushan Beg. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [61]
Annan Water [64]
Thomas the Rhymer [66]
The Greek Gnome. Robert Buchanan [70]
Friar Pedro's Ride. Bret Harte [73]
Tam O'Shanter. Robert Burns [79]
The Wild Huntsman. Bürger's Wilde Jäger. Tr. by Walter Scott [86]
Lützow's Wild Chase. Theodor Körner [94]
The Erl-King. Walter Scott [96]
Mazeppa's Ride. Byron [98]
The Giaour's Ride. Byron [110]
The Norseman's Ride. Bayard Taylor [113]
Boot and Saddle. Robert Browning [116]
The Cavalier's Escape. Walter Thornbury [116]
King James's Ride. Walter Scott [118]
Deloraine's Ride. Walter Scott [119]
Godiva. Alfred Tennyson [124]
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Robert Browning [127]
The Landlord's Tale. H. W. Longfellow [130]
Sheridan's Ride. Thomas Buchanan Read [135]
Kearny at Seven Pines. Edmund Clarence Stedman [138]
The Ride of Collins Graves. John Boyle O'Reilly [140]
A Tale of Providence. Isaac R. Pennybacker [143]
Kit Carson's Ride. Joaquin Miller [149]
Taming the Wild Horse. W. G. Simms [155]
Chiquita. Bret Harte [157]
Bay Billy. Frank H. Gassaway [160]
Widderin's Race. Paul Hamilton Hayne [164]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. William Cowper [174]
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian. Oliver Wendell Holmes [184]