Dog Poems

Dog Poems

Wolf, by Isaac McLellan

In winter, when the snows lie deep
In shapele...

Adventures with Bears, by James McIntyre

I bought of land two miles square,
I knew not...

The Singing Leaves, by James Russell Lowell

“ What fairings will ye that I bring?&rdq...

Father Pumpkin; or, Always in Luck, by John Godfrey Saxe

AN ARABIAN TALE I In Cairo once there dwelt a...

Tale of a Dog, by John Godfrey Saxe

PART ONE I "Curse on all curs!" I heard a cyn...

The Witch's Daughter, by John Greenleaf Whittier

It was the pleasant harvest time,
When cellar...

The Church, by Jules Romains

The self-deceit of having wrought the light. P...

Straw-Death, by Kenneth Rand

I who have lived my life,
My years of hot-blo...

On the Coast of Maine, by Louisa Brooke

I. Off-Shore The dappled blue of the evening s...

Paula's Bowl, by Myra Schneider

From Circling The Core (Enitharmon Press 2008) ...

How the Old Horse Won the Bet, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

'T WAS on the famous trotting-ground,
The bet...

A Dog's Business, by Patricia Walter

That is the business
of being dog--
to bark, ...

The Night of Storm, by Paul Fort

BOWED o'er my staff, but raising not my head, ...

Yesterday's Footprints, by Ric Masten

last summer whenever possible
my visiting gran...

The Color Tan, by Robert Birch

From Rhubarb Pie: With Just a Taste of Naughty ...

The Fog, by Robert Leighton

And is this day, or is it night,
That is nei...

The Ballad of East and West, by Rudyard Kipling

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and neve...

The Snow Storm on the Night of the 10th March, 1869, by S. Moore

Out in the cold, wild, drifting snow,
Blind...

A Time for Wine, by Theognis of Megara

Now that in mid career, checking his force,
...

Home, by William H. Bushnell

Where the rustic porch was hidden by roses, re...

The New Day, by William H. Simpson

The swift scouts of dawn ride in,
Their lance...

The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare

FROM the besieged Ardea all in post,
...

We Dogs of a Thursday Off, by Alberto Rios

The wine of uncharted days,
Their unsteady stan...

November 2: Día de los muertos, by Alberto Rios

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It is not simply the Day of the Dead—loud, an...

The Tower, by William Butler Yeats

                               IWhat shall I do...