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• The Lion’s Ride

  Anonymous translation from the German
  THE LION is the desert’s king; through his domain so wide
  Right swiftly and right royally this night he means to ride. …

  Ferdinand Freiligrath

• Fodder-Time

  From the German by John Eliot Bowen
  From “Songs of Toil”
  HOW sweet the manger smells! The cows all listen …

  Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania

• The Ox

  From the Italian by Frank Sewall
  From the “Poesie”
  I LOVE thee, pious ox; a gentle feeling …

  Giosuè Carducci

• Folding the Flocks

  Shepherds all, and maidens fair,
  Fold your flocks up; for the air
  ’Gins to thicken, and the sun …

  Francis Beaumont

• Beth Gêlert

  The Spearmen heard the bugle sound,
  And cheerily smiled the morn;
  And many a brach, and many a hound, …

  William Robert Spencer

• To a Dog’s Memory

  The Gusty morns are here,
  When all the reeds ride low with level spear;
  And on such nights as lured us far of yore, …

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• Helvellyn

  [In the spring of 1805, a young gentleman of talents, and of a most amiable disposition, perished by losing his way on the mountain Helvellyn. His remains were not discovered till three months afterwards, when they were found guarded by a faithful terrier, his constant attendant during frequent s…

  Sir Walter Scott

• The Arab to his Favorite Steed

  My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by,
  With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye,
  Fret not to roam the desert now, with all thy wingèd speed; …

  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

• The Blood Horse

  Gamarra is a dainty steed,
  Strong, black, and of a noble breed,
  Full of fire, and full of bone, …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• The Chariot of Cuchullin

  From the Ancient Irish by William Hamilton Drummond
  From “The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney”
  THE CAR, 1 light-moving, I behold, …

  Anonymous

• The Sea

  BEHOLD the Sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, …

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Ocean

  From “The Course of Time,” Book I.
  GREAT Ocean! strongest of creation’s sons,
  Unconquerable, unreposed, untired, …

  Robert Pollok

• Address to the Ocean

  O Thou vast Ocean! ever-sounding Sea!
  Thou symbol of a drear immensity!
  Thou thing that windest round the solid world …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• The Gravedigger

  Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old,
  And well his work is done.
  With an equal grave for lord and knave, …

  Bliss Carman

• The Treasures of the Deep

  What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells?
  Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main!—
  Pale glistening pearls and rainbow-colored shells, …

  Felicia Hemans

• Flotsam and Jetsam

  The Sea crashed over the grim gray rocks,
  It thundered beneath the height,
  It swept by reef and sandy dune, …

  Anonymous

• A Forsaken Garden

  In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
  At the sea-down’s edge between windward and lee,
  Walled round with rocks as an inland island, …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Gulf-Weed

  A Weary weed, tossed to and fro,
  Drearily drenched in the ocean brine,
  Soaring high and sinking low, …

  Cornelius George Fenner

• Sea-Weed

  When descends on the Atlantic
  The gigantic
  Storm-wind of the equinox, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Coral Insect

  Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,
  Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;
  Toil on! for the wisdom of man ye mock, …

  Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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