Over the whole scene of rickyard, garden, outbuildings, horsepond and orchard, brooded that air which seems rightfully to belong to out-of-the-way farmyards, an air of wakeful dreaminess which suggests that here, man and beast and bird have got up so early that the rest of the world has never caught them up and never will.
"The Unbearable Bassington"
Saki
The horsepond where he dips his wings, The wet day prints it full of rings.
"Poems Chiefly From Manuscript"
John Clare
You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter!
"Ulysses"
James Joyce