The titles, poets (and lyricists, for I have included some lyrics to horse songs which will be displayed in a lovely green color and counted them as poetry) and publishing information I've been able to find for each poem are listed here.  (Note that this is still work in progress, as you can plainly see.)  If you'd like a copy of a particular poem, send me e-mail, and I'll send you a copy of the poem.  I don't like to break copyright rules, and so only a few of the poems appear in their entirety here.   On the other hand, those titles that are underlined may connect to a link that has the poem and other information about the poet.  Also - you can now go to http://www.google.com/books and type in the title of the book and the name of the poem (not necessarily in that order, it turns out) and the poem just might appear!  I've just started testing this site, and you'll find my results in small type blue; clicking on poem title and poet link will, in that case, automatically take you to google.com/books.  In addition, some of the lyrics to songs have videos from youtube; I've included those in a kind of hot pink color!  Note that if, when you click on a link to a youtube song, you see "Open this content in a new window." you can just click on those words and the video will appear!  If you hit a link that did not work, however, please let me know!  I'd appreciate that.  Thanks!

 

 

 

1.  “Before You Leave” - Ai.  (in) Major, Clarence (ed.) The Garden Thrives:  Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry.  HarperCollins. 1996. 

 

2.  "A Blessing" -  Wright, James.  The Branch Will Not

Break: Poems.  Hanover, NH:  Weslyan University Press.  1959.

 

3.  “Blue Horses” - Roberson, Ed.  [GO TO:  google.com/books and type in poem title and book title - Blue Horses Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry] also (in) Major, Clarence (ed.) The Garden Thrives:  Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry.  HarperCollins. 1996. 

 

4.  “Blue Horses – West Winds” - Ednrezze-Danielson, Nita.  in Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. ed. Joseph Bruchac, Greenfield Center: NY.  Greenfield Review Press, 1983

 

5.  “Bronzes” - Sandburg, Carl read here by Holly Sorenson at Des Plains Public Library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvaxLme-xzU

 

6.  “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” - Cummings, E. E. 

 

7.  “Carousel” - McBride, Dennis.  Looking for Peoria: The Epicurean At Rest.  Portland: Quiet Lion Press.

 

8.  “The Cowboy’s Faith” (No Horses in Heaven) – Lyricist Unknown 

 

9.  "Daniel Webster's Horses" - Coatsworth, Elizabth.  Compass Rose.  NY:  Coward-McCann. Inc. 1929.

 

10.  “Death of an Old Carriage Horse” - Horton, George Moses.  (in) Sherman, Joan R. (ed.) The Black Bard of North Carolina:  George Moses Horton and His Poetry.  Chapel Hill:  Chapel Hill Books. 1997;

 

11.  “Destiny’s Spell” - Cordova, Nico Wind.  Copyright 1994.  (Music heard on the homepage for this site is Nico Wind, singing her song and playing her guitar.)

 

12.  “Dreamhorse" - Cummings, E.E. [GO TO:  google.com/books and type in title of poem and title of book]  100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings.  NY:  Grove Press.  1959.

 

13.  “The Flyin’ Outlaw” - Fletcher, Curley (in) Cannon, Hal (ed.) Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering.  Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books.  1985.

 

14.  “Horse” - Sexton, Anne.  [GO TO:  google.com/books and type in the title of the book and the title of the poem and then choose the link SAY THIS OF HORSES] Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin Co. 1981

 

15.  “Horse Dance” - Van Doren, Mark.  Collected and New Poems 1924-1963.

 

16.  “Horses” - Benarroch, Moshe. 

 

17.  “Horses” - Cole, Henri.  

 

18.  “Horses”  - Muldoon, Paul,  Horse Latitudes.  New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006

 

19.  “Horses” - Utting, Susan.  

 

20.  “Horses”  - Winner, Robert.  The Sanity of Earth and Grass.

 

21.  “The Horses of the Sea” - Rossetti, Christina. 

 

22.  “Hush-a-by:  All the Pretty Little Horses” - US Folk Song - Lyricist Unknown - sung here by Charlotte Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpeH27SxGb8 

 

23.  “I Would Steal Horses” - Alexie, Sherman, presented here by Nixyaawii Community School, Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Nation, Oregon:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP3aQKHR2Wo

 

24.  “Riding a Koan”  - Adair, Virginia Hamilton.  [GO TO google.com/books and type in book title followed by poem title] Ants on the Melon:  A Collection of Poems.  NY:  Random House.  1996.

 

25.  “Names of Horses” - Hall, Donald. Life Work: Donald Hall.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Beacon Press. 1991 - here read by M.J. Hummingway:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7NF-CMj_8

 

26.  “Night Clouds” - Lowell, Amy. 

        Video of "Night Clouds"

 

27.  “On the Wagon” - Stoutenburg, Adrien.  in The New Yorker magazine. May 11, 1968 (p. 154)

 

28.  “Out of the Earth” - Teton Sioux Chant

 

29.  “Question” - Swenson, May. 

 

30.  “Reincarnation” - McRae, Wallace.  

        Video of Reincarnation 

 

31.  “The Ride” - Roy, Lucinda.  (in) The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry. 1955.

 

32.  “Ride a Wild Horse” - Kahn, Hannah.  Time, Wait.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 1984

 

33.  “The Road to Good Intentions is Paved With Horses” - Munro, Peter. 

 

34.  “The Runaway” - Frost, Robert.  

 

“Runnin’ Wild Horses” - Black, Baxter.  Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy.  New York: Penguin Books. 1997.

 

36.  “She Had Some Horses” - Harjo, Joy. 

 

37.  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” - Frost, Robert, here reading his poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOxdZfo0gs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOxdZfo0gs

 

38.  “Stories From Kansas” - Stafford, William.  Kansas Poems of William Stafford.  ed. Low, Denise.  Topeka, Kansas: Woodley Press. 1990

 

39.  “Swift Things Are Beautiful” - Coatsworth, Elizabeth

 

40.  Thanksgiving at Snake Butte" - Welch, James 

 

41.  “With the Horse in the Winter Pasture” - McCarriston, Linda