The Poetry Of Dogs

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Man’s best friend. The dog has been our companion both as a worker and friend for thousands of years. It occupies a special and unique place in our society, in most cases far removed from the original purpose intended. In this volume our wordsmiths, from Kipling to Browning, from Swift to Byron, Wordsworth and Chesterton and many others take time to write down their thoughts and musings on this most loyal and trusted of animals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783948079

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THE POETRY OF DOGS

Man’s best friend.  The dog has been our companion both as a worker and friend for thousands of years.  It occupies a special and unique place in our society, in most cases far removed from the original purpose intended. 

In this volume our wordsmiths, from Kipling to Browning, from Swift to Byron, Wordsworth and Chesterton and many others take time to write down their thoughts and musings on this most loyal and trusted of animals.

Many of these poems have been recorded by our sister company, Portable Poetry, and is available as an audiobook from iTunes, Amazon and other fine digital stores.

Index Of Poems

The Train Dogs - Emily Pauline Johnson

On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird - William Cowper

To My Spaniel Fanny - Thomas Gent

Two Spaniels -  Richard Cobbold

Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Power Of The Dog – Rudyard Kipling

Argus – Alexander Pope

To Flush, My Dog – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

His Apologies – Rudyard Kipling

Advice To A Dog Painter – Jonathan Swift

Lauth – Robert Burns

The Best Friend – Meribah Abbott

Beau And The Water Lily – William Cowper

Poor Dog Tray – Thomas Campbell

The Irish Greyhound – Katherine Phillips

The Shepherd And His Dog – William Lisle Bowles

Beth Gelert – William Robert Spencer

A Guardian At The Gate – John Clare

An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog – Oliver Goldsmith

The Fusiliers’ Dog – Francis Doyle

Fidelity – William Wordsworth

A Friendly Welcome – Lord Byron

Exemplary Nick – Sydney Smith

Canine Immortality – Robert Southey

In Memoriam – Henry Willett

Questions – Oliver Wendell Holmes

To A Black Greyhound – Julian Grenfell

The Great Saint Bernard - Samuel Rogers

Geist’s Grave - Matthew Arnold

The Dog And The Water Lily. No Fable – Wiliam Cowper

Dogs and Weather - Winifred Welles

The Song of Quoodle - G.K. Chesterton

Old Dog Tray - Stephen Foster

Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bow Wow - Joseph Tabrar

The Twa Dogs - Robert Burns

I Started Early – Took My Dog – Emily Dickinson

Fool's Money Bags  - Amy Lowell

A little Dog That Wags His Tail - Emily Dickinson

The Lost Puppy – Henry Firth Wood

My Brindle Bull Terrier – Coletta Ryan

Cluny – William Croswell Doane

My Dog – Joseph M Anderson

Charity’s Eye – William Rounseville Alger

The Vagabonds – JT Trowbridge

The Little White Dog – May Ellis Nichols

Kaiser Dead – Matthew Arnold

Upon His Spaniel Tracy – Robert Herrick

Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog – William Wordsworth

The Train Dogs - Emily Pauline Johnson

Out of the night and the north; 

Savage of breed and of bone, 

Shaggy and swift comes the yelping band, 

Freighters of fur from the voiceless land 

That sleeps in the Arctic zone. 

Laden with skins from the north,

Beaver and bear and raccoon, 

Marten and mink from the polar belts, 

Otter and ermine and sable pelts 

The spoils of the hunter's moon. 

Out of the night and the north, 

Sinewy, fearless and fleet, 

Urging the pack through the pathless snow, 

The Indian driver, calling low, 

Follows with moccasined feet. 

Ships of the night and the north, 

Freighters on prairies and plains, 

Carrying cargoes from field and flood 

They scent the trail through their wild red blood, 

The wolfish blood in their veins. 

On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird - William Cowper

A spaniel, Beau, that fares like you,

Well fed, and at his ease,

Should wiser be than to pursue

Each trifle that he sees.

But you have killed a tiny bird,

Which flew not till to-day,

Against my orders, whom you heard

Forbidding you the prey.

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