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