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Open Plains Open Road Richard J Edwards	in the big cities men hang up their guns and spurs for a life that seems foreign to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ruth Henry Lawson	And the spurs running down to the Creek, and the she-oaks that sigh in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Land of the Gun Lisa Campbell	A solitary man hard as a rock The sound of spurs echoing down an alley A posse riding hard and fast through Death Valley Horse hooves...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
Lover’s Wine Charles Baudelaire	Like a horse mount this wine, without bridle, spurs, bit, for a heaven...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
'One Last Dance' Kurt Philip Behm	Montana calls my name My spurs and bits ‘a jingling’ as my soul goes north again Cody up through Beartooth Pass Cooke...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
FOUR KNIGHTS Elizabeth Louise Edwards	And into the night, with a jangle of spurs, Like Heaven’s own imaginings heard; Surely marked for adventure, fortune and fame, Names to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Curse for Kings Vachel Lindsay	Curse me the sleek lords with their plumes and spurs, May Heaven give their land to peasant spades, Give them the brand of Cain, for their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death in the Bush Henry Kendall	Black, barren ridges, where the nether spurs Are fenced about by cotton scrub, and grass Blue-bitten with the salt of many...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream of the Melbourne Cup Andrew Barton Paterson	The fierce whips cut and the spurs are red, The pace is undiminished Now for the Panics that never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Madrigal Paul Laurence Dunbar	'Tis love, and love alone That spurs my soul so surely on; Turns night to dawn, And thorns to roses fairest blown; And winter drear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Portrait Arthur Henry Adams	By gusts of passion undistressed, She spurs not on a panting pulse; Throned in her womanhood, at rest, No ripples of her moods...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Receipt To Restore Stella’s Youth. 1724-5 Jonathan Swift	With jockey boots and silver spurs, No less than justices o' quorum, Their cow-boys bearing cloaks before 'em, Shall leave...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Rhyme Of The War. Margaret J Preston	The clatter of spurs on the stout-booted heel, - The waving of banners, - the resonant tramp Of marching battalions,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Roxbury Garden Amy Lowell	Over a bed of pansies, Catch against the spurs of a columbine, Jostle the quietness from a cluster of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Swimmer's Dream Algernon Charles Swinburne	That stings and spurs thy sea Doth yet but feed and feast her With glowing sense of glee: Calm chained her,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Above Eurunderee Henry Lawson	And the scrub-covered spurs running down from the Peak To the deep grassy banks of Eurunderee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Along the hard crust of deep snows Anna Akhmatova	The light ring of your silver...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Essay on Criticism Henry John Newbolt, Sir	Takes steel in hand, and cheaply unafraid Spurs a lame Pegasus on Jameson's Raid, Or pipes the fleet in melodrama's tones To ram the Damned...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Angel Song Stan Richards	stirrups and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Annan Water George Wharton Edwards	Through muir and moss, and stones and mire; His spurs o' steel were sair to bide, And frae her four feet flew the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Annan Water Andrew Lang	Through muir and moss, and mony a mire; His spurs o' steel were sair to bide, And fra her fore-feet flew the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Alan Seeger	And clapped his spurs into the creature's flanks; High in the air, even to the topmost banks Of crudded cloud,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arms And The Man. - Our Ancient Allies. James Barron Hope	Steeds fret and foam, and spurs with scabbards clank As far they form, in many a shining...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Army Of Northern Virginia Stephen Vincent Benet	He wears gold spurs and sits his horse with the seat Of a horseman...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Art's Odyssey Through Love's Storms Mawphniang Napoleon	Love, you claim it spurs but also...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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