Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
A FEW clouds float across the grand blue sky, The glorious sun has mounted zenith-high, Mile upon mile of sand, flat, golden, clean, And bright, stretch north and south, and fringed with green, The rough dunes fitly close the landward view. All else is sea; somewhere in misty blue The distant coast seems melting into air Earth, sky, and ocean, all commingling there And one bold, lonely rock, whose guardian light Glistens afar by day, a spire snow white. Here, where the ceaseless blue-green rollers dash Their symmetry to dazzling foam and flash, We ride our horses, silken flanks ashine, Spattered and soaked with flying drops of brine, The sunny water tosses round their knees, Their smooth tails shimmer in the singing breeze. White streaks of foam sway round us, to and fro, With shadows swaying on the sand below; The horses snort and start to see the foam, And hear the breaking roar of waves that come, Or, pawing, splash the brine, and so we stand, And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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