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I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try
Our horsemanships, while by strange work I prove
A horseman to my horse, a horse to Love,
(Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Sonnets (Fr. XLIX, l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen
(May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. Question (l. 1-4). . .
New Poets of England and America. Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson, eds. (1957) Meridian Books.)
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the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a
flea,
(Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 13). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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O, for a horse with wings!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Imogen, in Cymbeline, act 3, sc. 2, l. 48.
Imogen learns that her husband Posthumus is at Milford-Haven.)
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If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. "A Horse You Had to Like," The New York Times (May 20, 1947).)
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A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Richard, in Richard III, act 5, sc. 7, l. 7 and 13 (1597).
Richard's last words at the Battle of Bosworth.)
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
(S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to his son Frank (Zeppo Marx) (1932).)
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Whose laughs are hearty, tho' his jests are coarse,
And loves you best of all things—but his horse.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town after the Coronation. . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
(Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Violet Effingham, in Phineas Finn, vol. 2, ch. x, London, Virtue (1869).)
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I was the horse and the rider,
and the leather I slapped to his rump
spanked my own behind.
(May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. The Centaur (l. 38-40). . .
No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, eds. (1973) Doubleday Anchor Books.)
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