White Horses, we'll ride them someday...

November 27, 2006 9:45 AM

A friend of mine is looking for a poem he thinks is called "White Horses" by the well-known oceanographer Willard Bascom.

Any help locating it would be good, but I think he needs it stat so if anyone has a copy or knows where to find it online that would be great. It has eluded my Google-Fu thus far. Thanks again.

posted by Heminator to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Could it be in this book?
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:50 AM on November 27, 2006

Is he sure its not the ballad of white horses by G.K Chesterton?

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/botwh10.txt
posted by atom128 at 12:49 PM on November 27, 2006

It's most likely in "Great Sea Poetry", which is an anthology compiled by William Bascom. It's been out of print for a while, but I just looked it up in the catalog of a library that I have access to, and might be able to find out a) if the poem is in the book b) if I can get a copy. Unfortunately I can't do that until tomorrow because the library is closed.
posted by nekton at 1:52 PM on November 27, 2006

Best answer: According to WorldCat, "Great Sea Poetry" is a collection of poems compiled by Willard Bascom. The WorldCat entry seems to say Rudyard Kipling is the main focus of the book, and Kipling wrote a poem called "White Horses."
posted by icontemplate at 5:08 PM on November 27, 2006 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Bingo. Thanks for everybody's help.
posted by Heminator at 10:12 AM on November 28, 2006