stirrup quotes

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.

- Robert Browning
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to  Aix'.

Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

-Walter de la Mare
  'The Listeners'.