The White Horse

D. H. Lawrence

The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on

and the horse looks at him in silence.

They are so silent, they are in another world.

From The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, edited by V. De Sola Pinto & F. W. Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angela Ravagli and C. M. Weekly, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.

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		A Horse Grazes in My Shadow by Matt Rasmussen
		Dead Horse by Thomas Lux
		Horses at Midnight Without a Moon by Jack Gilbert
		I Lost My Horse by Cecily Parks
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The White Horse

D. H. Lawrence

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