CONTENTS.
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Description of a Horse. Venus and Adonis 1
A Day's Ride: A Life's Analogy. The Spectator 2
On Horseback. E. Paxton Hood 3
The Horseback Ride. Sara Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) 4
An Evening Ride. Owen Innsly 7
The Queen's Ride. T. B. Aldrich 8
The Last Ride together. Robert Browning 9
Riding together. William Morris 13
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere. Alfred Tennyson 15
The King of Denmark's Ride. Hon. Caroline Norton 17
Rhyme of the Duchess May. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 19
Irmingard's Escape. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 37
William and Helen. Bürger's "Leonore." Translated by Sir Walter Scott 42
The Greeting on Kynast. Rückert. Translated by C. T. Brooks 52
Harras, the Bold Leaper. Karl Theodor Körner. Translated by G. F. Richardson 57
The Knight's Leap. Charles Kingsley 60
The Leap of Roushan Beg. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 61
Annan Water 64
Thomas the Rhymer 66
The Greek Gnome. Robert Buchanan 70
Friar Pedro's Ride. Bret Harte 73
Tam O'Shanter. Robert Burns 79
The Wild Huntsman. Bürger's Wilde Jäger. Tr. by Walter Scott 86
Lützow's Wild Chase. Theodor Körner 94
The Erl-King. Walter Scott 96
Mazeppa's Ride. Byron 98
The Giaour's Ride. Byron 110
The Norseman's Ride. Bayard Taylor 113
Boot and Saddle. Robert Browning 116
The Cavalier's Escape. Walter Thornbury 116
King James's Ride. Walter Scott 118
Deloraine's Ride. Walter Scott 119
Godiva. Alfred Tennyson 124
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Robert Browning 127
The Landlord's Tale. H. W. Longfellow 130
Sheridan's Ride. Thomas Buchanan Read 135
Kearny at Seven Pines. Edmund Clarence Stedman 138
The Ride of Collins Graves. John Boyle O'Reilly 140
A Tale of Providence. Isaac R. Pennybacker 143
Kit Carson's Ride. Joaquin Miller 149
Taming the Wild Horse. W. G. Simms 155
Chiquita. Bret Harte 157
Bay Billy. Frank H. Gassaway 160
Widderin's Race. Paul Hamilton Hayne 164
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. William Cowper 174
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian. Oliver Wendell Holmes 184