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After Having Spent a Night Among Horses (Swedish: Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) is a 1998 poetry collection by Finnish poet Tua Forsström. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1998.
Reviewer Susan Avallone wrote that the collection of stories was "intriguing experimental writing" and "a strange and compelling collection of poetry and prose," uncovering "family, friends, ambition, addiction, infidelity, obsession, and life on the road." A theme provided by references to horses appeared to be "part obsession and part allegory."
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
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 ...
50 common hyperbole examples. I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse. You’re as sweet as sugar. I have a million things to do today. That bag weighs a ton. She talks a mile a minute.
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 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 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.