FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
72-73
Will H. Ogilvie
A Winngin Goal
What though 'twas luck as much as skill that gathered up the pass Before us lies an open goal and eighty yards of grass.
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
74
Will H. Ogilvie
Our Guests
We welcom you our guests from o'er the sea! Together flew Our flags till the world was free!
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
75-76
Will H. Ogilvie
The Circus
Circus! The gilded wagons the great tent blazing with light The scent of the trampled sawdust and 'Three shilling seats to the right!
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
77-78
Will H. Ogilvie
Crooked House Toll
The proud years have passed it and left it alone No more with red blossoms its gables are gay From moss-covered thatch and from mouldering stone The rose that once wrapped it has withered away.
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
79
Will H. Ogilvie
The Star on His Forehead
The lift of his action is rhythmic and right His depth through the heart is a horseman's delight
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
80-81
Will H. Ogilvie
New Forest Ponies
You are free of the woodland meadows of swamp and thicket ride all day in the slanting shadows you lurk and loiter and hide
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
82-85
Will H. Ogilvie
After the Thunder
If I'd 'a had two I'd 'a held 'em but just because I had four. An' the black colt in for the first time an' the bay mare lookin' for war
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
86-87
Will H. Ogilvie
Aintree Calls!
Gallps when the dawn is breaking Foam upon the breastplates flaking Upland turf to hoofbeats shaking Lanterns in the dim-lit stalls
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
88-89
Will H. Ogilvie
The Stallion
Beside the dusty road he steps at ease His great head bending to the stallion-bar No lifted now flung downward to his knees
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
90-91
Will H. Ogilvie
To Horse and Away
When sorrows come sobbing To clutch at the breast When trouble comes robbing the heart of its rest
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
92
Will H. Ogilvie
The Golden Hoofprints
I walked one day on a road in Devon A road that rose till it touched the blue where high in the curtained halls of Heaven the God of all beauty reigned I knew
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
93
Will H. Ogilvie
Wind of the Night
Hark to the high wind's hunting horn! The hounds of the night run mute and fast You may hear a branch from the beech-tree torn as the Field goes trampling past
Galloping Shoes
FC 11 O-7
94
Will H. Ogilvie
The Hoofs of the Horses
The hoofs of the horses Oh witching and sweet Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
3
Elizabeth Ebert
Strip Tease
We fling our feathery phrases We toss onto the crowd Our alliterative baubles that fragile gossamer cloud
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
4
Elizabeth Ebert
New Year
Though January's presumed to start the year I think the New Year starts when spring is here
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
5
Elizabeth Ebert
Prairie Woman's Song
I left all the hustle and bustle And the noise of city life and I followed my love to the open plains
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
7-8
Elizabeth Ebert
Things in Common
They had a lot in common Those cowboys of the past those daring men on horseback living reckless riding fast
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
9
Elizabeth Ebert
Cowboy Up
The phrase that's popular these days among the cowboy crew when bad luck rides your shoulder and good luck is overdue
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
11
Elizabeth Ebert
The Cowboy
He wears a dusty Stetson circled by a sweat-stained band and he's a couple finger short upon his roping hand.
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
13
Elizabeth Ebert
Antique Auction
One dollar two dollars who'll make it three? Come seek an antique at an auction with me
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
15-17
Elizabeth Ebert
Winter Fashions
I've been scanning winter fashions reading women's magazines in search of swank alternatives for sweat shirts and jeans
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
19
Elizabeth Ebert
Prairie Religion
The black robes came with crucifix and beads to bring God to the unchurched prairie land to offer prayers in alien word and phrase that those who listened could not understand.
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
21
Elizabeth Ebert
She Rode a Spotted Pony
She rode a spotted pony with her yellow braids a-flop they'd gallop 'cross the prairie then sometimes they would stop
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
23
Elizabeth Ebert
Dakota Winter
When Dakota winds are whistling their bitter winter tune when daylight shambles in too slow and darkness comes too soon.
Prairie Wife
FC 11 E-20
25-27
Elizabeth Ebert
Ranch Wife
This ranch wife is no cowboy I must admit that 's true But I still think that I would be one darned good buckaroo.