Categories for Hunting Poetry

English Grass!

Posted on Friday, September 22, 2023 in:
Subject: Poetry
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Come, horsemen all, from every field And taste this rare delight, And see what English pastures yield To those whose hearts beat right! Come, haste and quaff the stirrup-cup! Turn down the empty glass! The horn is blown, the hunt is up, And here’s our English grass! And here are foxes swift to find And...

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A Single Hound

Posted on Friday, September 22, 2023 in:
Subject: Poetry

When the opal lights in the West had died And night was wrapping the red ferns round, As I came home by the woodland side I heard the cry of a single hound. The huntsman had gathered his pack and gone ; The last late hoof had echoed away ; The horn was twanging a...

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