Read full poem →Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!
Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,
With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye
Dictionary Entry
The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. cavalrydivision cavalryregiment cavalrycavalry lightcavalry frenchcavalry confederate
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Poetry examples for “cavalry”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →and the little force found itself under the very walls of
Zutphen, and confronted by the enemy's cavalrY, a
thousand strong. Twice the English charged, and
Read full poem →DID they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day—
When their cavalry smote through the ancient Esdraelon Plain,
And they crossed where the Tishbite stood forth in his enemy’s way—
Read full poem →Now sound no note O trumpeters,
Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs (ah
Read full poem →words only,
Sentences broken, _gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish,
taken to hospital,
Read full poem →And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries,
cavalry, moving hither and thither,
(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed
Read full poem →away,)
The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I
examine,