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64. EQUERRY.COM - Horse Quotations Adam Lindsay Gordon 18331870 Hippondromania. The sun it was, ye glitteringgods, ye took to make a horse. Dirga-Tamas Indian Vedic Poet, c1000 BC. http://www.equerry.com/html/eq_quotes.htm

We're looking for a few good quotations from you! If you have any favorites you would like to contribute... Please click here to submit using our Contact Form ( select Submit Quotes for category (Include name of the source to whom you attribute the quote and date.) It's better to want the horse you don't have than to have the horse you don't want. Contributed by Andreas Eribacher Rick Meyer When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid, I figure its a sure sign that the animal has outfoxed them. Contributed by Andreas Eribacher Tom Dorrance If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don't make him learn it - you let him learn it. Contributed by Andreas Eribacher Ray Hunt Horses lend us the wings we lack. Contributed by Jennifer Hazen Unknown If there's a lot of try in the human, there's a lot of forgiveness in a horse. Walter Josey Horses see in black and white, and riders ride in grey.

65. Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 18091852 Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 Gonzales, Don ManoelGoodwin, John Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833-1870 Gordon, Irwin Leslie, 1887 http://www.olympus.edu.pl/Instytut NW/wirtualna biblioteka/autorzy.htm

66. Poets Australia - Adam Lindsay Gordon - Australian Poet - Photos, Art, Music Australian Poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Images, Photos and Music showing Australian Lifestyles Adam Lindsay Gordon one of our most loved and acclaimed poets both here and abroad and possibly one http://www.imagesaustralia.com/adamlindsaygordon.htm

Adam Lindsay Gordon - one of our most loved and acclaimed poets both here and abroad and possibly one of our most tragic. He is most remembered for his ballads and their exciting rhythms and his love of the open-air life. Please scroll down for more information. Dingley Dell near Port MacDonnell in South Australia. The house where Adam Lindsay Gordon and his wife Margaret Park once lived. It is now a museum. More from Poets Australia Dorothea Mackellar Henry Lawson A.B. Paterson Henry Kendall ... Poetry - Music - Chopin Adam Lindsay Gordon was born on Oct. 19, 1833 at Fayal in the Azores and died on the 24th of June 1870 at New Brighton, Australia. He was educated in England at Cheltenham College, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and the Royal Worcester Grammar School. As a youth he was very wild and reckless and his father decided that he should be sent to South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide in 1853 he was 20 years old and within a few days he joined the South Australian Mounted Police. Two years later in 1855 he resigned and became a horse breaker and steeplechase rider. He soon gained a reputation as being the best and most daring non-professional steeplechase rider in the colony. In 1859 and two years after the death of his parents in 1857 he received 7,000 pounds from his mother's estate. Soon after in 1862 he married Margaret Park a girl of 17 he purchased a small cottage Dingley Dell in South Australia.

67. Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon By Adam Lindsay Gordon Free download of the Project Gutenberg eBook Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon by Adam Lindsay Gordon http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR258.HT

68. Australian Authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70) Adam Lindsay Gordon (183370) Brief Biography. Adam Lindsay Gordon was born in 1833 at Fayal in the Azores where his mother's father had a plantation. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes 1870. Selected Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon 1912 http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/gordonal/gordonal.html

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70) Brief Biography Adam Lindsay Gordon was born in 1833 at Fayal in the Azores where his mother's father had a plantation. He completed his education in England and was sent by his family to South Australia in 1853 where he enlisted in the mounted police. He was briefly a member of Parliament and lived in Western Australia and Ballarat before moving to Melbourne. During his time in Ballarat he suffered a severe head injury in a riding accident, was bankrupted by a fire in the livery stable and lost his infant daughter. The day after the publication of his poems in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes he committed suicide on Brighton Beach in Melbourne. The poems that follow are all taken from that volume. He is the only Australian poet to be honoured with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. Bibliography P oetry C ollections Sea Spray and Smoke Drift Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes Selected Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon B iographies The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon 1934, by Edith Humpris

69. Gordon, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Gordon, Adam Lindsay 183370, Australian poet, b and the vigorous Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes ( 1870). Depressed by debts, he committed suicide at 36 http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0821300.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Gordon, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Adam Lindsay, , Australian poet, b. the Azores. In 1853 he went to South Australia, where he joined the mounted police and later became famous as a steeplechase rider and horse owner. His works include Sea Spray and Smoke Drift Ashtaroth (1867), and the vigorous Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870). Depressed by debts, he committed suicide at 36. His collected poems were published in 1912. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Gordon Gordon, Charles George Related content from HighBeam Research on: Adam Lindsay Gordon Saluting the heroes amid the carnage. (Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland)) A LAND WITHOUT LENDINGS: JUDITH WRIGHT, KENOSIS, AND AUSTRALIAN VISION. (Southerly) Jim Gilchrist says forget Blake, think Bubbles. (The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland)) Now and then.

70. Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon Poet, Horseman 1833 1870. We are currently preparinga short profile. Please return again soon, or email us http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/People/Gordon.html

You are here: White Hat Australia Australian People 200 Significant Australians Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter Great Things to do in Melbourne - the White Hat guide Adam Lindsay Gordon Poet, Horseman We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. A number of monuments to Gordon can be found around Victoria and beyond. On the highway near Coleraine Race Track is a monument commemorating Gordon's participation as a jockey there. The Ballarat Botanical Gardens preserves his cottage (shifted from Bath Street). Gordon Resertve links two unlikely Gordons - Adam Lindsay Gordon and Gordon of Khartoum. Both have a statue. This forms part of White Hat Tours' Melbourne by Lamplight tour. Outside a pub in Brighton can still be found the hitching post that Gordon used for hitching his horse. In 2002 the Royal Grammar School Worcester , England opened a new building called Gordon House to celebrate 150 years since A L Gordon was at the school. And, of course, he is still the only Australian poet to have a bust in

71. Author Adam Lindsay Gordon, From The Oldpoetry Poetry Archive The Australian Scenery. Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833 – 1870 Adam Lindsay GordonBorn in 1833 at Fayel in the Azores. Son of an Officer in the English Army. http://oldpoetry.com/authors/Adam Lindsay Gordon

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72. THE SWIMMER By Adam Lindsay Gordon THE SWIMMER by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 1870). With short, sharp,violent lights made vivid, To southward far as the sight can http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/gordonal/poetry/swimmer.html

THE SWIMMER by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870) With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid, To southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of the surges livid, The seas that climb and the surfs that comb. Only the crag and the cliff to nor'ward, And the rocks receding, and reefs flung forward, And waifs wreck'd seaward and wasted shoreward On shallows sheeted with flaming foam. A grim, grey coast and a seaboard ghastly, And shores trod seldom by feet of men Where the batter'd hull and the broken mast lie, They have lain embedded these long years ten. Love! when we wander'd here together, Hand in hand through the sparkling weather, From the heights and hollows of fern and heather, God surely loved us a little then. The skies were fairer and shores were firmer The blue sea over the bright sand roll'd; Babble and prattle, and ripple and murmur, Sheen of silver and glamour of gold And the sunset bath'd in the gulf to lend her A garland of pinks and of purples tender, A tinge of the sun-god's rosy splendour, A tithe of his glories manifold. Man's works are graven, cunning, and skilful On earth, where his tabernacles are; But the sea is wanton, the sea is wilful, And who shall mend her and who shall mar? Shall we carve success or record disaster On the bosom of her heaving alabaster? Will her purple pulse beat fainter or faster For fallen sparrow or fallen star?

73. HOW WE BEAT THE FAVOURITE By Adam Lindsay Gordon HOW WE BEAT THE FAVOURITE by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 1870). ALAY OF THE LOAMSHIRE HUNT CUP. Aye, squire, said Stevens, they http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/gordonal/poetry/webeatfav.html

HOW WE BEAT THE FAVOURITE by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870) A LAY OF THE LOAMSHIRE HUNT CUP "Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens; The race is all over, bar shouting, they say; The Clown ought to beat her; Dick Neville is sweeter Than ever - he swears he can win all the way. "A gentleman rider - well, I'm an outsider, But if he's a gent who the mischief's a jock? You swells mostly blunder, Dick rides for the plunder, He rides, too, like thunder - he sits like a rock. "He calls 'hunted fairly' a horse that has barely Been stripp'd for a trot within sight of the hounds, A horse that at Warwick beat Birdlime and Yorick, And gave Abdelkader at Aintree nine pounds. "They say they have no test to warrant a protest; Dick rides for a lord and stands in with a steward; The light of their faces they show him - his case is Prejudged and his verdict already secured. "But none can outlast her, and few travel faster, She strides in her work clean away from The Drag; You hold her and sit her, she couldn't be fitter, Whenever you hit her she'll spring like a stag. "And p'rhaps the green jacket, at odds though they back it, May fall, or there's no knowing what may turn up. The mare is quite ready, sit still and ride steady, Keep cool; and I think you may just win the Cup."

74. Author Notes - Adam Lindsay Gordon Notes on Author. Adam Lindsay Gordon. 1833 1870. Adam Lindsay Gordon was bornin 1833 at Fayal in the Azores, the son of an officer in the English army. http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/G/GordonAdamLindsay/notes.html

Notes on Author Adam Lindsay Gordon A DAM LINDSAY GORDON was born in 1833 at Fayal in the Azores, the son of an officer in the English army. He was educated at Cheltenham College, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and finished his education at Royal Grammar School, Worcester from 1851 to 1853. The Royal Grammar School has recently opened a new building in his name to celebrate the 150 years since his attendance. It was in 1864 that published his first volume of poetry, The Feud. This was followed by Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867) and Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes Charles Harpur and Henry Kendall Financial setbacks and a deepening depression caused him to commit suicide and he was found dead near his home at Brighton Beach, Melbourne, on June 23 1870, the day after the publication of his poems in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. Back Home Site Info.

75. [minstrels] From The Wreck -- Adam Lindsay Gordon Mallika Biography Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 1870) http//whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/G/GordonAdamLindsay/notes.html http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1278.html

[1278] From the Wreck Title : From the Wreck Poet : Adam Lindsay Gordon Date : 15 Jun 2003 "Turn out, boys!" ... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq mchellappa@ From the Wreck Adam Lindsay Gordon Again a poem from my brother's poetry text "Poems old and new". I learnt the meaning of alliteration from the phrases of this poem, just as I learnt the meaning of onomatopoea from G K Chesterton's "Lepanto". Of course it is also a ballad/story poem par excellence. But what is really remarkable is the narrative sentences that have both rhyme and rhythm. They are absolutely unlaboured. Mallika Biography: Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870) http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/G/GordonAdamLindsay/notes.html Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com [this poem is archived, accessible and awaiting your comments at] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1278.html minstrels-subscribe@

76. Bush Poets And Bush Poetry POET OF THE DAY Frank Daniel One of Australia s foremost performance bush poets.Bush Poets and Poetry. Famous Bush Poets. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870). http://www.bushpoetry.com.au/Famouspoets/Adam_Lindsay_Gordon/Default.aspx

~ Home Page ~ Forum ~ News ~ Calendar ... ~ Contact Details POET OF THE DAY: Frank Daniel - One of Australia's foremost performance bush poets. Bush Poets and Poetry Famous Bush Poets Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon was the son of an officer in the English army, and was educated at Woolwich, in order that he might follow the profession of his family. At the time when he was a cadet there was no sign of either of the two great wars which were about to call forth the strength of English arms, and, like many other men of his day, he quitted his prospects of service and emigrated. He went to South Australia and started as a sheep farmer. His efforts were attended with failure. He lost his capital, and, owning nothing but a love for horsemanship and a head full of Browning and Shelley, plunged into the varied life which gold-mining, "overlanding", and cattle-driving affords. From this experience he emerged to light in Melbourne as the best amateur steeplechase rider in the colonies. The victory he won for Major Baker in 1868, when he rode Babbler for the Cup Steeplechase, made him popular, and the almost simultaneous publication of his last volume of poems gave him welcome entrance to the houses of all who had pretensions to literary taste.

77. GIGA Biographical List Of Names (GOM - GOR) of Alexander McGregor Rose), Canadian journalist (1897 ) see Rose - BUY AMAZONBOOK Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (1833 - 1870) - READ QUOTES (2 http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/qubiogom.htm

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78. 4. The Horse Statue - Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial The Horse Statue / Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial At the western side post with a plaqueinscribed AL Gordon, AUSTRALIAN POET, 1833 1870. He was a http://users.ncable.net.au/~jburrell/statues/4gordon.htm

4. The Horse Statue - Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial 1969 Sculptor: Raymond B Ewery, Cast bronze, granite The Horse Statue / Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial At the western side of the Sturt and Lyons Street crossroads there is magnificent bronze statue by Evans of a horse mounted on a stone plinth. In front, by the gutter, is a hitching post with a plaque inscribed "A.L. GORDON, AUSTRALIAN POET, 1833 - 1870." He was a celebrated poet and horseman who set a record at Flemington when he won 3 steeplechases in an afternoon. At Mount Gambier in South Australia he performed an amazing feat on his horse at a place immortalised as Gordon's Leap'. The inscriptions around the base of the statue read: He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth forth to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not afraid, Neither turneth he back from the sword. JOB 39 V21-22 ERECTED BY THE ADAM LINDSAY GORDON SOCIETY TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE POET'S LIVING IN BALLAARAT, ALSO AS A MEMORIAL TO THE 958, 600 HORSES AND MULES KILLED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, INCLUDING 169, 000 THAT LEFT THESE SHORES NEVER TO RETURN. UNVEILED BY HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR OF BALLAARAT, CR. M.J. BROWN 1969. PRESIDENT CR W.E. ROFF, C.B.E., SECRETARY P. ABSON, ESQ.

79. Literary Encyclopedia: List People (G) Nadine ). 1923 Present. Gordon, Adam Lindsay (Gordon, Adam Lindsay). 1833 - 1870. Gordon, Caroline (Gordon, Caroline ). 1895 - Present. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?no=150&golist=true&init=G

80. Eric Shackle's EBook - Froth & Bubble A search of the internet has at last revealed that the verse was composed byone of Australia s most famous poets, Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833­1870). http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle/articles/froth_bubble.htm

The World's First Multi-National eBook! (Casting the Net from Au to Za) Introduction New Stories Recent Stories Index ... Guest Map LIFE IS MOSTLY FROTH AND BUBBLE Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in our own. One of my relatives or a family friend inscribed those inspiring lines in my autograph book more than 70 years ago. They linger in my memory, and their message still applies today. But until now, I had no idea of the poet's name. A search of the internet has at last revealed that the verse was composed by one of Australia's most famous poets, Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833­1870). It's towards the end of a 180-line poem titled Ye Weary Wayfarer. Finis Exoptatus. Gordon is the only Australian poet to be honoured with a bust in the Poets' Corner of London's Westminster Abbey. Here are some brief facts about him, from Perry Middlemiss, of Melbourne, who presents a wonderful selection of Australia's greatest authors and poets on his website. Gordon, he says, was born in 1833 at Fayal in the Azores, where his mother's father had a plantation.

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