In the Saddle

A COLLECTION OF POEMS ON HORSEBACK-RIDING

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

Lord Herbert of Cherbury

BOSTONHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANYNew York: 11 East Seventeenth StreetThe Riverside Press, Cambridge1882Copyright, 1882,By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.All rights reserved.The Riverside Press, Cambridge:Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.


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CONTENTS.

Page

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

[Pg iv]Thomas the Rhymer 66

The Greek Gnome. Robert Buchanan ...

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