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The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Eugenia W. Collier (born April 6, 1928) [1] is an American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction in 1969; it was Collier’s first published story. [2] [3] She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Collier's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993 ...
A writer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted, of the original publication: "A beautiful volume, as far as typography goes, is Mr Will H. Ogilvie's 'Fair Girls and Gray Horses,' a collection of Australian poetry with the imprint of the 'Bulletin' Company. The real westward—that means anywhere from Menindie to the Gulf of Carpentaria and west of ...
The horse knows the way. To carry the sleigh. Through the white and drifted snow." Read the full poem at Poetry Foundation. 'Thanksgiving for Two' by Marjorie Saiser “What we didn’t see was ...
Horses at Night (1934), mural in oil by Frank Mechau: Date: 1934: Source: Report of the Public Works of Art Project. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1934, page 24-2 Denver Public Library — immediate source; Author: Frank Mechau, PWAP Region 11
The first recognizable ancestor of the rhyme was recorded in William Camden's (1551–1623) Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, printed in 1605, which contained the lines: "If wishes were thrushes beggars would eat birds". [4] The reference to horses was first in James Carmichael's Proverbs in Scots printed in 1628, which included ...
A number of horses feature in Nordic mythology, both throughout tales and in lists such as those in the poem Kálfsvísa and the þulur. [4] [5] These include the horses of the Æsir, ridden by gods such as Odin and Freyr, Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi, the horses that pull Day and Night respectively, and Grani, the horse of Sigurð Fáfnir's bane.
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