The Horses by Edwin Muir /The-Horses-by-Edwin-Muir.html James Marinero favourite poetry - The Horses by Edwin Muir James Marinero Poetry The Horses Edwin Muir the horses edwin muir this was a set poem in school at that time, we lived under a 4 minute warning , so seriously was the possible threat of a soviet missile attack taken or so it seemed to me this poem summed up the potential aftermath i still remember the phrase the seven days war that put the world to sleep later, i was to listen to bob dylan and appreciate his poetry - i e lyrics talkin world war iii blues was, to me, the urban equivalent of muir s the horses this work may still be in copyright, as edwin muir died as recently as 1959, therefore i have not reproduced it here it is, though, available at poemhunter i have no affiliation to that site the horses