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| Searching... Subject: DOGS Matches Found: 1047 9 A. M., THE GRITTY OUTSKIRTS, by LAURIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: The great dane prowls his third-floor pied a terre Last Line: To his bald head like that and opened his mouth to howl Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A BELATED MEMORIAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years of varied weather Last Line: He bounds to me. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me Last Line: Bring me one of your stockings between its teeth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DOG NAMED EGO, THE SNOWFLAKES AS KISSES, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs A DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being in his resting place Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DOG WAS CRYING TONIGHT IN WICKLOW ALSO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When human beings found out about death Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The A DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs A DOG'S LIFE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yours a dog's life, do you moan? Last Line: You will be the better man Subject(s): Dogs A DOG'S VIGIL, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: There is a friendship that exists between Last Line: Had seen a lonely dog pass by that night. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp Last Line: Being wholly ordinary. Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets A FAITHFUL DOG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My merry-hearted comrade on a day Last Line: Fast-locked against a loved one, evermore? Variant Title(s): Faithful Follower, Gentle Friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Loyalty A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a ghost of a dog that comes Last Line: Who says a little dog hasn't a soul? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A GIFT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give the kid a dog and you've furnished him a playmate Last Line: Give the kid a dog. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A KIND OF MUSIC, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Irrelevance charactizes the behavior of our puppy Subject(s): Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A LITTLE DOG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog disturbed my trust in heaven Last Line: Gave back my faith in heaven by god's will. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Faith; Belief; Creed A MALTESE DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from malta; and eumelus says Last Line: Along those roads we cannot hear him bark. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live here: 'wessex' is my name Last Line: "yet, will this pass, and pass shall I?" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wessex, England A ROMANCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A calm, delightful autumn night Last Line: A wild, delirious autumn night! Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Dogs; Love; Moon; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime A STORY AT DUSK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An evening all aglow with summer light Last Line: And wept away his passion by himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Change; Dogs; Death A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations ABOUT CATS AND DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When its about cats Last Line: It's about heart Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ABOUT THE DOGS OF DACHAU, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: About the hearts of dusk that could make Last Line: From which no song must ever be finished Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ABSENCE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, but a dog's love is a true, true thing Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Dogs AFTER AN ILLNESS, WALKING THE DOG, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet things smell stronger Last Line: Imagines to the end that he is free Subject(s): Dogs AFTER MY LAST PAYCHECK FROM THE FACTORY, TWO THIN COUPONS, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ordered vegetables and he ordered dog Last Line: And he as dead as the four-legged he ate %two short kilometers before home Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AFTER THAT, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: The woman who runs Last Line: She smiled, a small woman, %soft spoken and polite Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fear AFTERNOON WALK, by RON EZZIE Poem Source First Line: There are snakes everywhere, she says Last Line: Where more trees than houses %crowd my mind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let dogs delight to bark and bite Last Line: And marks them for his own. Variant Title(s): Quarrelling Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements AGE MOVES, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age moves in the hound Subject(s): Boys; Dogs AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AJAX, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old ajax was a faithful dog Last Line: And then must give it up! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AMBER SLEEPING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On the railing sleeps my cat Last Line: And waits his real meal at the door Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs AMBIGUOUS DOG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog beneath the cherry-tree Last Line: His bite is at the growly end Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AMEN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone calls duchess, our fawn great dane, back Last Line: Rising from ethel rosenberg's hair. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Hunting; Primitive Man; Rosenberg Case; Dead, The; Hunters; Cavemen; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius AN APPEAL TO OUR BOY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Here is a friend, my little man Last Line: Hail to you, little generous knight! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Friendship; Childhood AN ELEGY ON A LAP-DOG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shock's fate I mourn; poor shock is now no more Last Line: Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.' Variant Title(s): On A Lap-dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Good people all, of every sort Last Line: The dog it was that died! Variant Title(s): On The Death Of A Mad Dog Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ROMEO, A LADY'S LAP-DOG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, when the stern unpitying hand of fate Last Line: Copious bedew the consecrated urn. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask't phisitions what their counsell was Last Line: Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind asse. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Dogs; Mankind; Mules; Human Race AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes Last Line: Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour. Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed AN INSECTARIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot wash my dog,' she said Last Line: "may find no other home." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fleas ANIMAL STORE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a hundred dollars to spend Last Line: Or maybe a little more Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANIMOOSH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A girl surrounded by brothers Last Line: Bounding through the long field of goldenrod and sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In a wheelbarrow up to the hole, her warm fur shone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In the wheelbarrow up to the hole, her fur took the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER MOUTH THE FEED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got another mouth to feed Last Line: Now buddy's got a pup. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER REASON I DON'T KEEP A GUN IN THE HOUSE, by BILLY COLLINS Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs APOLOGY TO A SMALL DOG, by TEDDY WEBB Poem Source First Line: Little gray dog, don't run, don't fear Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ARF, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs give commands to me in one syllable Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ASOLANDO: THE CARDINAL AND THE DOG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crescenzio, the pope's legate at the high council, trent Last Line: Heaven keep us protestants from harm: the rest ... No ill betide! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT A DOG'S RESTING-PLACE (JACK, MON PAUVRE CHIEN), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Part of the sylvan scene Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory AT BREAKFAST, by IDA M. MILLS Poem Source First Line: When I sit up to bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT THE MANGER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She has come a long way Last Line: She has come a long way %seeking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT THE POUND, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Eyes bore %deep Last Line: What we cannot bear %to know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream Last Line: It was only a dream Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream Last Line: What something is in order to hold it Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent Last Line: Drenched, unchanged Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl Last Line: Stubborn girl. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino Last Line: The animal, the new Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness AUGUST AND FEBRUARY, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: The boy put the puppy in a basket Last Line: The boy that night couldn't stop crying Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AUTUMN NIGHTFALL, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: In the vacant lot, amid jewelweed Last Line: To there, like a run for an old spayed bitch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AVE CAESAR!, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full in the splendor of this morning's hour Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AWKWARD SPRING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Equal to my desire Subject(s): Dogs BAD DOG, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Just remember, my friend told me Last Line: Every day when we talk to each other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BAD DOGS, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Oh yes, they were bad, my childhood dogs Last Line: Harried in unison the flushing weeds %like brutal, exuberant owners Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BADGER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Last Line: And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies. Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters BALLAD OF THE DOGS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: When ibn batutta, arabian traveller Last Line: And the dogs go on, with sure and swishing steps, %deeper into the darkness Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Dogs; Travel BALTO, THE DOG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A trackless stretch of icy snow, Last Line: "comes the grateful cry: ""you can trust a dog!" Subject(s): Animals; Arctic; Dogs BAR V RANCH, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: When you first get to the a bar v ranch in skull valley, arizona, something Last Line: Evening, along with the setting arizona sun Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) BARK WITH AUTHORITY, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: I tell my dog, bete noire of the backyard Last Line: And ushers in snoozing and supper and silence? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BATH, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang garlands on the bathroom door Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BATH, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Now it don't happen often %maybe once't a year Last Line: An' head straight fer the nearest 'pie' Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) BATTLE OF THE PEKES AND THE POLLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pekes and the pollicles, everyone knows Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEAGLE SPEAKS OF NOSES, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: I should be good Last Line: My nose is boss Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Noses BEAU'S REPLY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, when I flew to seize the bird Last Line: With verse addressed to me? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BECAUSE THE DOG DEMANDS, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: I leave the lamplit lane and walk into the dark Last Line: And the windows lit up %waiting Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEDTIME STORY, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The generator hums like a distant ding an sich Last Line: I think we should, love, I think we should Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Compassion; Dogs BEHIND BARS, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: I hear a dog's barking Last Line: The world outside is pure happiness %to those dumped behind bars Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEHIND THE MUZZLE, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: I am feeling ache-and-ouchy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BENCH-LEGGED FYCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BESIDE THE WATERFALL, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn / the big dog Subject(s): Dogs BESS, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The collie girl had the sense bred out of her Last Line: Well, he broke up for days that time, and cried. Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs BEST DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yes, I went to see the bow-wows, and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BETWEEN, by JOHN CIARDI Poet's Biography First Line: I threw a stick. The dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BETWEEN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I threw a stick. The dog Last Line: And I threw, and he fetched Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BETWEEN NEIGHBORS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The complainant is a big man Subject(s): Neighbors; Dogs; Parrots BETWEEN THE FOUR PADS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The fragrance of grass Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grass; Nature BEWARE OUR LOVING DOG, by LUCRETIA PENNY Poem Source First Line: Postmen and milkmen %and workers on the job Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets BEYOND THE GRAVE, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: How often have we known a dog to be Last Line: Will grant him life again beyond the grave, %to meet with friends - where death can play no part Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BIG DOG, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you / this head Last Line: Be a man again. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The one two times the other's size Subject(s): Dogs; Size & Shape; Food & Eating; Height BIG QUIET SPACE IN THE BED FOR ALMOST AN HOUR AFTER MIDNIGHT, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: The lover and I are lying squarely Last Line: Pant. No one with the gift of speech. In this bed %tonight, breath a soaking rain Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Relationships BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my sister came back from africa Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness BINGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The miller's mill-dog lay at the mill-door Last Line: And he bought a wedding ring-o! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Mills And Millers BIRTHDAY GIFT, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: He entered the shop Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BISCUIT, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog has cleaned his bowl Last Line: Might have given him a stone Subject(s): Dogs BISHOP DOANE'S TRIBUTE TO HIS DOG CLUNY, by WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE Poem Source First Line: I am quite sure he thinks that I am god Last Line: Tells me what I unto my god should be Variant Title(s): Clun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BLACK DOG, RIVER, MOON, by REYES GARCIA Poem Source First Line: I had a huge black dog then Last Line: Willing to trust in the pulse of the land in our blood Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLACK DOG: ON BEING A POET, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: So that coming to the low wall near the foreman's house Last Line: As he does. Till a door closes. Or opens Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLACK MOTH, by FRANK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Large as a hand, the black mosaic moth Last Line: And the faithfulness which they cannot help Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLOODHOUND, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I am the dog world's best detective Last Line: Or my face my nasal accusation Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLOODHOUND, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, herod, my hound, from the stranger's Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLUE ICE WOLF, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a paper with a bent corner, haphazardly Subject(s): Hospitals; Wolves; Dogs; Supernatural BOMBAY THE LABRADOR, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: Bombay the labrador is a big black buckle-high boy Last Line: Like laughter echoes crossing %voices into joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Labrador BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Last Line: He bestirs the dead man's fortitude Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOUNCE TO FOP; AN HEROIC EPISTLE FROM A DOG ... TO A DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet fop, these lines I send Last Line: And roar in numbers worthy bounce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOUNCE TO FOP; EPISTLE .. DOG AT TWICKENHAM TO DOG AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet fop, these lines I send Last Line: And roar in numbers worthy bounce. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOY AND A PUP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy wears a grin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests BRIEF WORSHIP, by VIRGINIA SCOTT MINER Poem Text First Line: So short a time they have Last Line: They'd bark at god! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BRINDLED DOG, BLACK DOG AND BLUE SHAGGY DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Any dogs for sale?' I will tie you up %tight and sell you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BROWN EYES, by MRS. S. L. DEMPSEY Poem Source First Line: In early youth I made a vow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BULLDOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My dog and my favorite baseball glove Last Line: Could be they're from the same %leathery litter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BULLDOG SPEAKS, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I agree that I'm no beauty Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BUM, by W. DAYTON WEDGEFARTH Poem Text First Line: He's a little dog, with a stubby tail Last Line: For the good lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BURNING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lives, who last night flopped from a log Last Line: Burning a house burning in the wilderness Subject(s): Sickness; Dogs; Illness BUSY FLAME, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Oh, child, with what a will Last Line: Still as a dog before a fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fire CAELICA: 20, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, how now cupid, do you covet change? Last Line: Let me first make your dog an unicorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CALL, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is more sign of invasion Last Line: We choose to imagine it is love Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CAMPAIGNER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A small white terrier greeted me Last Line: I asked the darling dog. %the tail wagged yes, %and her eyes agreed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANADIAN GEESE ON COONAMESSETT INN POND, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Soldiers with webbed feet Last Line: First a line, then a circle, %they pair off in two's, %a well choreographed ballet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE CELEBRITY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A blase schnauzer ignored me Last Line: When you are named after ogden phipps %you don't have time for small bark-talk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE DAY, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: The day came in on the backs of dogs Last Line: Have acquired property somewhere Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE HOW-TO BOOKLET, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: In a world of human mistrust Last Line: You never know what surprise may be in store. %she may offer you a taste treat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE JEWEL IN SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Tiffany greeted me with generous licks Last Line: Her persian lamb coat %and iridescent manicured nails Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE MOVIE STAR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Don't be discouraged if you're not a beauty queen Last Line: He'd probably be disqualified at the dog show, %lacking perfect markings as we all know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE RECEPTIONIST, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The sign said 'magoo is on vacation,' Last Line: I must always have what it takes, %even if I'm not in the pink Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE RESUME, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: See how pretty I am Last Line: And don't fight with other dogs. %I can list two pet shops for references Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE ROULETTE, by MIKE CLUFF Poem Source First Line: Puppies %pomeranians in beds of Last Line: Above my valley home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANIS MAJOR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANIS MAJOR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CARMINA: MY LADY'S PET, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On her lap one of the matted terriers Last Line: It grinned I grinned back. %it's the one she calls little bottle after deng xiaoping Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Animals; Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997); Dogs CAVE PAINTING, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: What story to tell on the stone flank Last Line: Bison. Bear. Deer. Hawk. %man. Dog. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CELEBRITY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A chestnut brown celebrity neighs Last Line: The beast breaks into a trot %and leaves the world of people Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHANCE, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty miles from a homestead, straight as Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHARITY'S EYE, by WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER Poem Source First Line: One evening jesus lingered in the market Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHASING RABBITS, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Night falls %black/white %coats glistening Last Line: Heavy eyes %of dogs dreaming Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) CHILD'S DREAM, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little dog, and my dog was very small Last Line: All among its petals, was his hairy face Variant Title(s): The Little Do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHOOSING A DOG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's love,' they say. You touch Last Line: They see time going on and someone alone, %but they don't say anything Subject(s): Animals; Change; Dogs CHOW OUTSIDE GRAMERCY PARK, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My bark sounds vicious Last Line: Perhaps some lonely person would even enjoy %patting me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHRISTOPHER SINGING, by VICTORIA WYTTENBERG Poem Source First Line: My black shepherd rises at the sound Last Line: Shingled and mossy, past tree branches %polished by moonlight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHUCK SHEPPARD, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Chuck sheppard was born in globe, arizona. A rodeoer at the age of Last Line: With a pan full of table scraps. 'they live a simple life, and that suits %chuck and blondie just fi Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) CHUTZPAH--IN NAME ONLY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: They call me chutzpah Last Line: I would have barked %till they let me sit with my master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COKE AND SNOW, BLACK AND WHITE TERRIERS, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: We don't even like scotch whiskey Last Line: We'll bring much joy to our new home, %and promise that we shall never roam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COME HITHER, LITTLE PUPPY-DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONFESSION OF A GLUTTON, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After I ate my dinner then I ate Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONSOLATION, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The violence in civilized parts is worrisome. We have old Last Line: & tide flats we travel wear them urgently Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONTENTMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the way that the world is made Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONVOY, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One blueberry morning in maine Subject(s): Dogs COON DOGS, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Red bone %still hound Last Line: Into death %its secret home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness; COUNTRY FAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you didn't see the six-legged dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COUNTRY FAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you didn't see the six-legged dog Last Line: And that was the whole show Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COW DOGS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The ranchers I knew as a boy Last Line: Dust rising from the baked earth, %night settling on the silent ranch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life COWDOGS CAUGHT THEIR FIRST JACKRABBIT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Growling to protect his trophy, the bloody ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Nature; Rabbits CRANKY CANINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Hug me if you must Last Line: But with a name like herr chips %I should get some respect Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CRICKETT, A CANINE CRITIC, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: What shrill sounds pierce my ears Last Line: Next time tell her you're already engaged, %even if rejection causes her to be enraged Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CRYING WOLF, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: Something seems to be moving Last Line: No wolf anywhere in sight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CURSE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: May whoever left Last Line: May he know %lonely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CUSTODIAN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every spring when the ice goes out Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CUSTOMS INSPECTOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Jackpot was sporting a coat grass-green Last Line: So I waved goodbye to my beagle friend %as he passed out of sight around the bend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CYNOTAPHIUM (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When some dear human friend to death doth bow Last Line: I laid thy sightless head full gently there. Variant Title(s): The Tear Of Friendship Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The CYNOTAPHIUM (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think thine all is buried here Last Line: How much on such dark ground a gleaming thread can do! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The D IS FOR DOG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: My dog went mad and bit my hand Last Line: I was bitten to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DA PUP EEN DA SNOW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Deed you evra see joy Last Line: Ees first play een da snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DACHSHUND, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: A dachshund sniffing round a tree Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DALEY'S DORG WATTLE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from allan's creek Last Line: "that there dorg had got that inseck in the bottle." Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Insects; Bugs DAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Last Line: Against each other on his paws %and head Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DANCING WITH THE DOG, by SUSAN KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep dark of december Last Line: Let's dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dogs DANDIE DINMONTS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pepper or mustard- what's the odds? Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAVY, HER KNIGHT, HER DEAR, WAS DEAD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAY AFTER CHASING PORCUPINES, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain came. Fog out of the slough and horses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEAD BOY'S PORTRAIT AND HIS DOG, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day I have come and sat Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEAR MARVIN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I merge with your message wherever Last Line: There, your very best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEATH OF A DOG, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: The wearng of time on the wrist Last Line: He loved me like clockwork while he lived Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEEP LANE, by MARK DOTY Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs DESCRIPTION OF A SALAMANDER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are Last Line: If this be not a salamander Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Salamanders DESPAIRING POOCH WAITING FOR A TAXI, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why won't you pick us up? Last Line: I won't annoy you with barking comments, %so you see the ride will be very quiet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DHARMA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way the dog trots out the front door Subject(s): Dogs DIGGING, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Digging is a thing I love to do Last Line: Dirt is riddled with old bones to chew Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DISGRUNTLED ACTOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I thought I was the star of this movie Last Line: I think I'll organize a union for dogs, %to demand our rights from these human snobs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DISGRUNTLED DOG AND SUSPECTED SPY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why are they staring at me? Last Line: Can't I please just have my bone? %and let my master conduct his deals Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DIVINE RIGHT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mao says sit Last Line: About political alternatives %he's king Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DO YOU LOVE ME?, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She's twelve and she's asking the dog, Subject(s): Children; Dogs; Childhood DOG, by JOHN ALLMAN Poem Source First Line: We could hear him out there past the lilacs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear him out in the kitchen Last Line: Like a strange naked hermit in a cave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear him out in the kitchen Last Line: His tongue hidden in his long mouth %like a strange naked hermit in a cave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog hangs in a kitchen, his back stuck to the ceiling. An old woman Last Line: The dog, says the old man Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Last Line: Some victorious answer %to everything Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I walk downhill, a stranger, into town Subject(s): Dogs DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pity not to have a dog Last Line: Man's toil by day, a dog will stay %his ever-constant friend Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like a dog at my feet when I read Last Line: But still, as I opened my door, I should &see %my dog wag his tail with a welcome for %me Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is black or white or brown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When moon drifts %through the dream Last Line: At moonrise %he remembers he is wolf Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This night is monstrous winter winter when the rats Last Line: And where my name must be Subject(s): Dogs; City & Town Life DOG, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you first felt the foul dog walking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When adam quitted the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He does not look fierce at all, propped scarcely erect Last Line: From the vain distance he is the power of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Source First Line: Near the military barracks Last Line: On the barracks posts of the frightened colonels Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics DOG, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: I don't think I remember the exact direction Last Line: All four tires on my pickup were wet %(in memory of chief, the best dog ever) Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The truth I do not stretch or shove Last Line: A wet dog is the lovingest Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The cosmos and all its mysteries so ample Last Line: Quick forgiveness he taught me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs are quite a bit like people Subject(s): Dogs DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What was I doing with my white teeth exposed Last Line: As you have taught me, oh distant and brilliant and lonely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Sadder than myself Last Line: Never begging for pity %merely %there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've never known a dog to wag Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Except for the dog, that she wouldn't have him put away, wouldn't Last Line: Also, I'd found a girl to be in love with: all we wanted was to live %together, so we did Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Under a maple tree %the dog lies down Last Line: All afternoon in his loose skin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fantailed dog of the end, the lights out Last Line: He'd whistle me down, and down, but not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: I am alone Last Line: Nuzzles %my empty hand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG - LOST, by HELEN BROSI MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: A small boy went away, and so Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ABANDONED, by INEZ CLARK THORSON Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me Last Line: Bring me one of your stockings between its teeth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND A BOY, by RICHARD KATROVAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joe brickhouse saw his dog Last Line: Who had learned so young %how to talk to the dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND ALL, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Between light, see Last Line: Cradling %the dog and all Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND CAT, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Text First Line: The dog is not to lunge Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOG AROUND THE BLOCK, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tangle, sniff, untangle, %dog around the block, sniff Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ASLEEP, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: You sprawl upon you special bed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Husky-masked, bologna-tongued, pfoxer Last Line: In her sights, too Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR, by GOLDIE CAPERS SMITH Poem Source First Line: Forlorn, he waits beside the schoolhouse door Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG BEING PATTED, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why are you fondling me? Last Line: You seem so happy touching me, %how can I deny you this pleasure? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG BISCUITS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Dog biscuits, you entice me Last Line: You are shaped so nicely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG DAYS, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The farmers in vermont Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG DREAMING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The paws twitch in a place of chasing Last Line: A sleeping beast knows who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; Sleep DOG DREAMS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A scrabble of nail Last Line: Chasing the hare Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOG DYING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Dog dying in the hot sun Last Line: And the mortality of nerves and meat Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs DOG EYE'S VIEW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: The people whom I take to walk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG I LOVED YOU SO', by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: The noblest, truest friend I had Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CAR, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He grins a little as they drive him by Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CORNFIELD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet's Biography First Line: Fallow between the horny trees Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CORNFIELD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fallow between the horny trees Last Line: The man quick to a joy he understands Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN CHAIR, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: Aha! I've caught you there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN KIVULU, by RALPH BITAMAZIRE Poem Source Last Line: And drinks the water from the cattleshed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN THE BAR-ROOM MIRROR, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: Unexpectedly a mirror reveals me Last Line: I turn to go, but first I bend %to give myself a quick, consoling pat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG LIGHT, by WILLIAM CLIPMAN Poem Source First Line: Ignored, like the green flash of the fly Last Line: White teeth, bone light, dog's eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG MEETS CAT, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: What a fluffy little kitty! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG MUSIC, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Was it worth it, I ask myself Last Line: Smoke. How much do you need Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED BENJI, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My famous name is a strain Last Line: Perhaps I'll change my name some day %and live my life a different way Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED EGO, THE SNOWFLAKES AS KISSES, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And left me no recourse, far from my home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED RUDOLF RABINOWITZ, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Don't think I don't have my likes and dislikes Last Line: I like hearing it so much I become very nice Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG OF ART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That dog with daisies for eyes Last Line: Of art turns to the world %the quietness of his eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ON DIAMOND ROW: 47TH STREET, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A man stooped down to pat the akita Last Line: Giving licks and love in full measure, %this sparkling dog better than any toy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In times of calm or hurricane, in days of sun or shower Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARADE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, mrs. Chutney, no, I am not going to madison square garden Last Line: I just want to say that I don't think they are any better than I am Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARTED FROM HER MASTER, by HUSEH T'AO Poem Source First Line: Yes, she's a good dog Last Line: Now she no longer sleeps %upon his red silk rugs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Last Line: Five days a week. Give them my life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POISONER, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: To this day, no one knows who he was or she was Last Line: Raining or some other miracle had happened Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SALESMAN, by J. HARVEY HAGGARD Poem Source First Line: Ten bucks, he's yours. That dog,' said he Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being in his resting place Last Line: Sleeping to grow back my legs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our sings begin at nightfall Last Line: See the horsemen come laughing Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG THAT HOWLS AT NIGHT, by HERBERT J. BRYCE Poem Source First Line: There are canines old and mangy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: Not very affectionate; she likes to kiss Last Line: To play with her. It may be enough Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG WANTED, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Text First Line: I don't want a dog that is wee and effeminate Last Line: Just a portable, washable, lovable pup! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG WAS CRYING TONIGHT IN WICKLOW ALSO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When human beings found out about death Last Line: The dog crying out all night behind the corpse house Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs DOG'S ANSWER, by VICTORIA WYTTENBERG Poem Source First Line: A woman, her dog by her side, bends Last Line: The dog says, let's have biscuits and cheese. %and they do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S BEST FRIEND IS HIS ILLITERACY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has been well said that quietness is what a grecian urn is the still Last Line: And if I ended up with raccoons every guest would turn out to be a racconteur Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S COLD NOSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When noah, perceiving 'twas time to embark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Last Line: To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs DOG'S GAMBOL, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's what I see Last Line: A truly monstruous world %will hatch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S HOWL, by LOWE W. WREN Poem Source First Line: You've seen men whose pipes keep going out? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: I've watched these pups come along %seemingly separate balls of energy Last Line: I can picture death as absentmindedness Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) DOG'S LIFE, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such captivating quantities of dirt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by UNKNOWN+24 Poem Source First Line: Nappy, springer spaniel, leads a busy life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by MILLY WALTON Poem Source First Line: I'm sick of all this silly rot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S MUSIC, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rich hire orchestras, and have the musicians climb into trees to sit Last Line: Into history with all its marvelous music! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S TALE, by JEFF AVANTS Poem Source First Line: How well must I Last Line: What my dog didn't eat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, ON THE OTHER HAND, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: You can cling to. A dog is not like an abandoned child Last Line: For my dead dog, for those abandoned little bodies %in the babies' home Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Sickness DOG, SELS., by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His colours strange, what mortal painter's hand Last Line: As tail of memphian crocodile full-grown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Milton, John (1608-1674) DOG-GREL VERSES, BY A POOR BLIND, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what shall I do for a dog? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG-STAR PUP, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the silver edge of a vacant star near Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGALYPSE, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I trust every animal Last Line: A six-foot collie will explain it all, %fangs bared! Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGFIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's a runt %he snarls and scratches Last Line: He ought to know better than to cross %the railroad tracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGGING HIS STEPS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To dog his steps' -- there's libel in the phrase Last Line: "that is to ""dog his steps"" the doggish way!" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, by SONDRA AUDIN ARMER Poem Source First Line: Fence in the dogs Last Line: Their human lusts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When I was once a wandering man Last Line: Was threatened with a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love DOGS, by ROBERT WINTHROP WATSON Poem Source First Line: I hear them bark outside my window, dogs Last Line: Unlock his gate. He looks long-eared and furry. %I hear him growl, snap his jaws. I bark back Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Dogs DOGS, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a bar girl in saigon Last Line: Warm, and pour it slow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN Poem Text First Line: The dogs that go on errands of their own Last Line: Their very tails expressing sweet content. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS AND DOGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mastiff is a stately brute Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ARE SHAKESPEAREAN, CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs; Children; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Childhood DOGS ARE SHAKESPEAREAN, CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We are shakespearean, we are strangers Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Dramatists; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DOGS AT DOG BEACH, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: My dog hs found some other dogs to romp Last Line: Trotting through the features of a simple universe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if there could be a world Last Line: For absolutely nothing but joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore DOGS IN THE STORM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this slow heart was raging Last Line: Who howls for us both in such savage moonlight? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Romance DOGS OF BETHLEHEM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many a starry night had they known Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS OF CHINLE, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: Once, camped at the mouth of the canyon Last Line: Out of the canyon, in the morning air stilled %in the weeds along roadsides and ditches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS OF ZIMMER, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tether of the aeons holds them Last Line: The wild lights in their eyes grown dim, %they bang the doorway with their tails Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ON THE CLIFFS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: They are there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, HER DREAMING, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: The always of it is that she falls Last Line: What they know of rising from the red-eyed dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOLLAR DOG (1), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dollar dog is all mixed up Last Line: Flap-eared, bull-faced, bumble-paw, %stub-tailed, short-haired, biscuit hound Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DON, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is don, the dog of all dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DON'T CALL ME MISHA, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My name is mikhail baryshnikov Last Line: I know mikhail baryshnikov (my human counterpart) %will understand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOUGLAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's an old, old song with a sweet refrain Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Singing & Singers DREAM DOG, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Dream dog leaps out of the moon with nothing Last Line: In its muzzle but bones of yellow light Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DREAM VISION FROM THE BOOK OF DOGS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: A man was talking to a dog Last Line: Not now, there's more, I promise... Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams DREAMS: ON THE HUNTING GROUND, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER Poem Text First Line: We sleep upon fir-tree boughs at night Last Line: For the coming by and by. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DUG A DUG, by WILLIAM KEYS Poem Source First Line: Hey, daddy, wid ye get us a dug? Last Line: Aw, daddy! A dug! A dug! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Glasgow, Scotland DUGAN--A SCHNAUZER DOG, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Dugan always gave me a lick Last Line: He stared and gave me a canine pout, %as I told his mistress a story Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EF UNCLE REMUS PLEASE TER 'SCUSEN ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey wunce wuz er time which I Last Line: He'd des a-kilt off ev'y dawg dat's chasin' him dis minute! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Uncles EL MONTE LODGE, TAOS, NEW MEXICO, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Nestled in the valley below 'taos mountain' sits a quaint little lodge Last Line: And one canine visitor from town. It seems lady has started a tradition at the el monte Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) ELEGY FOR A BEAGLE MUTT, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a season this is Last Line: Under my fist -- wait for me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers ELEGY FOR JOG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stiff-dog death, all froth on a bloody chin Last Line: He had to bite the tire. Fools have no luck Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR JOG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stiff-dog death, all froth on a bloody chin Last Line: He had to bite the tire. Fools have no luck Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY TO A DISSECTED PUPPY, SELS., by GEORGIA BAILEY PARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Sweet dog! Now cold and stiff in death Last Line: Explore the contents of thy chest Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ELEPHANT, DOG, RIVER, by GILES MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy, proud small-molded ministers Last Line: When I sit down to rest Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 43. ALL GRASP, ALL LOSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One at a time's enough, one puss pursue Last Line: Then gape, and stare, and wonder where they're gone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Love; Hunters END OF THE SEASON, by W. G. TINCKOM-FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: There's a keen wind searching the marshes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ENGLISH COCKER: OLD AND BLIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what painful deliberation he comes down the stair Last Line: The kinship of all flesh defined by a hlting paradigm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ENGLISH COCKER: OLD AND BLIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With what painful deliberation he comes down the stair Last Line: The kinship of all flesh defined by a halting paradigm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am his highness' dog at kew Last Line: Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you? Variant Title(s): Inscribed On The Collar Of A Dog;on The Collar Of A Dog Presented By Mr. Pope;engraved On The Collar Of A Dog [which I Gave To His Royal Highness] Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A SCOTCH TERRIER, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pause a moment by this spot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A STRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quite a nice dog is laid below Last Line: We were the only folks he had! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A VISITOR'S DOG .. AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 1702, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This scratch I make that you may know %on this rock lyes ye beauteous bow Last Line: Reader, this rock is the bow's bell, %strike't with thy stick, and ring his knell Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH ON FOP, A DOG BELONGING TO LADY THROCKMORTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though once a puppy, and though fop by name Last Line: "and worn with vain pursuit man also dies." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH ON THE LAP-DOG OF LADY FRAIL (LADY VANE), by JOHN WILKES Poem Text First Line: At thieves I bark'd, at lovers wagg'd my tail Last Line: And thus I pleased both lord and lady frail. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs EPITAPH TO A DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near this spot Last Line: I never knew but one -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPHS: A SMALL DOG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here fearless lies: with asian pride Last Line: Now hear his bark in the rising tide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EUMELOS HAD A MALTESE DOG, by TYMNES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lost on the night-bound roads Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EXAMPLE, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I want my boy to have a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EXTRA AT THE HOUSE, by BUD CORNISH Poem Source First Line: His pedigree - from a dogdom tree Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EXTRAORDINARY DOG, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When mother takes me calling Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLES: 1ST SER. 17. THE SHEPHERD'S DOG AND THE WOLF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wolf, with hunger fierce and bold Last Line: But a pretended friend is worse. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLES: 1ST SER. 26. THE CUR AND THE MASTIFF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sneaking cur, the master's spy Last Line: The cur was hang'd, the mastiff clear'd. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FABLES: 1ST SER. 30. THE SETTING-DOG AND THE PARTRIDGE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ranging dog the stubble tries Last Line: She said, and to the covey flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters FABLES: 1ST SER. 34. THE MASTIFF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those, who in quarrels interpose Last Line: By both sides mangled, sneak'd away. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLES: 1ST SER. 44. THE HOUND AND THE HUNTSMAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Impertinence at first is born Last Line: Are sure to make their follies known. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters FABLES: 2ND SER. 6. THE SQUIRE AND HIS CUR, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man of pure and simple heart Last Line: The dog was cudgell'd out of place. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FAITHFUL DOG, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My admiration for buffon has never made me blush Last Line: Summers and the beauty of women past their prime Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAITHFUL FRIEND, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: I know a faithful dog who sits beside Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FALA, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: A friend of mine, a st. Bernard Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FALLING DOG, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: I am lying on a giant dead sequoia Last Line: An inch or so measured in this dead tree's rings Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAMILIAR FRIENDS, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: The horses, the pigs Last Line: With five pups to give me %a surprise Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FARMER'S DOG LEAPED OVER THE STILE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And his name was bingo Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAUST BOOK: DISCOURSES ON SUBJECT OF TRAINING & HEREDITY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Out for a healthy walk, faustus picks Last Line: The dog assumes a toothy smile Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Faust FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES ENLIGHTENS DR FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Why, if I may ask, did you appear Last Line: What would you like to do with yours Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Dogs; Faust FETCH, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The marrow it's this Last Line: Takes you again and again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FICE, by EDWARD LODI Poem Source First Line: Most agree a pedigree Last Line: Though lacking symmetry %suits me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIDELITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A barking sound the shepherd hears Last Line: Above all human estimate! Variant Title(s): Helvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England FIDO, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Sleek and black she sleeps Last Line: As the bones %of the fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIERCE LOYALTY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A paw grips the man's leg Last Line: Pepe's ears remain alert %and bright eyes focus intently %toprotect his owner Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIGURE OF SPEECH, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years my litter of wounds Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIGURE OF SPEECH, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years my litter of wounds Last Line: Each other, killing for my choicest parts Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIRST AIRING, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Little, little puppy on a great big street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIRST DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Out of the darkness Last Line: It was faithful %and stayed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIRST SNOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old black dog comes in one evening Subject(s): Snow; Dogs; Country Life FIVE DOGS, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, the dog they call spot, was about to sing. Autumn Subject(s): Dogs FLUSH OR FAUNUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see this dog. It was but yesterday Last Line: Who by low creatures leads to heights of love. Subject(s): Animals; Consolation; Dogs; Friendship; Love FLYING DOGS, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: In early spring color pokes its chilly nose through the earth Last Line: & the horizon vibrate like a violin string Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Spring FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Full well I know that you are gone - and yet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR A GOOD DAY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some dogs are brats Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR A GOOD DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog ten years ago Last Line: And lie in dust with hector's pup; %so, presently, must I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life Change Events FOR ELI, A LOST DOG, by SCOTT SPENCER Poem Source First Line: I've known grief and, naturally, fear Last Line: Canine %answers to the name of eli %please contace me thro ugh the publisher of this book %generous Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For it was the first day of rosh ha'shanah, new year's day, day of remembrance, of ancient sacrifice Subject(s): Rosh Hashanah; Jews; Worship; Dogs; Judaism FOR MUGS, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: He is gone now, he is dead Last Line: He used to snuggle on my bed %but now he's gone, he died. He's dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOUND, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: I found a funny little dog Last Line: Then write: 'found dog. It's mexican.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRANCES', by RICHARD WIGHTMAN Poem Source First Line: You were a dog, frances, a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRENCHIE, by FRANK C. MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: I found him in a shell hole Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRIEND, by ESTHER BIRDSALL DARLING Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when life has gone wrong with you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRIEND DOG, SELS., by ARNOLD ADOFF Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRIENDSHIP, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My dreams were crumbled, and my house Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FROM A PET-SHOP WINDOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: His eyes said, 'come and buy me' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FULL OF THE MOON, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: It's full of the moon Last Line: And chase their tails till dawn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GAY WAG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When bosses grow censorious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GEIST'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years! - and didst thou stay above Last Line: The dachs-hound, geist, their little friend. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets GEORGE KNIGHT TO HIS DOG PINCHER, by GEORGE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Gentle pincher, cock thy tail Last Line: Make the temple of delight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GETTING RID OF THE DOG BY TAKING IT AROUND THE MOUNTAIN, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swoop over rainless land Last Line: On the far side of the mountain Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GHOST DOG, by BARBARA HURD Poem Source First Line: A week after your death Last Line: What unfinished gestures of gratitude Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Ghosts; Supernatural GIACOMETTI'S DOG, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She moves so gracefully on her bronze legs Last Line: To shore in this dog-eat-dog world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIFT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Last Line: In love's name, your emissary Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIFT, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Madame woo, robed in silk, roams Last Line: The chance for me to hold her on my lap Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIVE A BOY A DAWG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give to pa a horse to drive Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GLAMOUR GIRL, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A furry glamour girl with four legs Last Line: And the tongue of the dog %run neck and neck %for my stare Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GNAWING THE BREAST, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Of a fallen sparrow, the prairie dog first softens Last Line: And the hill might even move a little, feeling the kick of a child Subject(s): Prairie Dogs GOING TO THE DOGS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The head of the german shepherd I have now Last Line: Even by a gut that pretends love Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GOLDEN RETRIEVALS, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention Subject(s): Dogs GOLDEN RETRIEVER, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: ... Bounding again into those childhood fields Last Line: And smear all over your golden fur. Go on Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GONE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My little dog is gone Last Line: To feed a stray cat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GONE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've looked behind the shed Last Line: A bark? You hear a bark? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GONE TO THE DOGS, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: This country has literally gone to the dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GRASSLANDS, by IRVING C. HALL Poem Source First Line: Under the brazen sky Last Line: Prairie dogs flip into their holes %as a hawk makes a pass Subject(s): Prairie Dogs GREETINGS FROM A BLIND DOG, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little pilgrim through a night Last Line: Happy greetings from us two! Subject(s): Animals; Blindness; Dogs; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Visually Handicapped GREYHOUND SPEAKS, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I'm a racing success Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GROOMER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: On saturdays I take maurice Last Line: Here come that little bitin' dog.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GUARDIAN TANYA, by THOMAS CARPER Poem Source First Line: Sensing when I must travel, she refuses Last Line: Coming gladly with a leash to link us %so we can go to death as on a walk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GUIDE DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She's just a plain dog Last Line: She's just a plain dog. %she's my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HALF BORDER AND HALF LAB, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Customs and chemistry Subject(s): Dogs HALF PAST TEARS, by EDITH OGDEN Poem Source First Line: Over the pond and down the road Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HANSI, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our dog is not stupid, but stubborn, and so Last Line: It's different, though, when out he goes %each morning to read the news with his nose! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HARMONY STONEWORKS, LATE WINTER, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday is silence in the pit, the gate locked Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HAWKING FOR PARTRIDGES, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was already pink across the east Last Line: And so, my friend, we passed our happy time %with rhymes, sweet rhymes in sugar, keeping time Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dogs; Hawks; Hunting; Landscape HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need the ceremony of one another, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Cats; Dogs; Food & Eating; Relatives HE'S JUST A DOG, by JOSEPH M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Here is a friend who proves his worth Last Line: Without some borrowed traits, to make %a decent dog! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HECTOR'S DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Hector is one dog that can't stand Last Line: In the overture to william tell Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam. Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery HENRY VIII'S DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When henry tudor was the king Last Line: And hoped he'd never learn to eat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HER GERMAN POLICE DOG, by RUTH DURHAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: So faithfully, for fifteen years or more Last Line: And watched you as your faithful spirit flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) HER PET, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the floor, read, watch a cop-show, drink Last Line: And labored with it to bring on its end. Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montague, John (b. 1929) HERITAGE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Place not your faith in blood. We are controlled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS CODE OF HONOR, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: His scanty raiment stained and rent Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pete bristles when the doorbell rings Last Line: Has felt the blow the worst of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS DOG, by ETHEL M. KELLEY Poem Source First Line: Yes, he's my dog. He knows a lot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS GOOD POINTS, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: The judges all agree that I'm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS MAJESTY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I came to wish ziggy a happy new year Last Line: He allowed me the pleasure of much stroking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: Under the kiawe he lies - Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko -- Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness HISTORY, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: Solitude is a cold pear I eat Last Line: In the grain of the floor Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIT OR MISS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morn - it was the very morn Last Line: Who would but hit or miss a post. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HOBO'S DOG, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: A box-car held a motley group of men Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOMAGE TO OUR LADY OF THE STRAYS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How terribly wrong some love Last Line: Of old ones made to live and die alone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOME BRUNT, by KAY RILEY Poem Source First Line: Your pets, we know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Midnight %and the house is breathing Last Line: Oh, my girls! My girls! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets HONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong we brought from far off china Last Line: In his heart was only love. Subject(s): Animals; China; Dogs HONG KONG CHOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong kong chow is dead, his loving heart hath ceased / to beat Last Line: In loved paownyc he doth sleep, at rest forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Death; Dogs; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The HOPE, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the stairs Last Line: Of his mind - immense. %hope ruling him %past sense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HORSE, DOG, AND MAN, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: The horse and the dog had tamed a man ... Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUND ON THE CHURCH PORCH, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: The farmer knew each time a friend went past Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUND SONG, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: Three nights in a row Last Line: We let him out again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUND VOICE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because we love bare hills and stunted trees Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dogs; Voices; Relationships HOUSE DOG, by GEORGE BOAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have achieved the life of contemplation Last Line: Feel it to be themselves they thus bedeck. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUSE DOG SPEAKS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I'm a hearth dog Last Line: Who's any good at that Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOW MCDOUGAL TOPPED THE SCORE, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: A peaceful spot is piper's flat. The folk that live around Last Line: For we played molongo cricket—and mcdougal topped the score! Subject(s): Animals; Cricket (game); Dogs; Practical Jokes; Sports; Pranks HOW THE FEUD STARTED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before there were pineapples, peaches or plums Last Line: Has chosen the mouse as his favorite ration.) Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOW THE POPE IS CHOSEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy. Subject(s): Dogs; Popes; Hair; Wit & Humor; Papacy HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Last Line: Answers to what comes next and how to like it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOWL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: They were sitting across from each other. To stay detached Last Line: It's just dog's blood? Nothing more' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HUNGRY HOUNDS OF WINTER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: The hounds of winter now are here, they bare Last Line: You blast frail life, with black and certain death. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Winter HUNTER'S MOON, by MARIE E. REDDY Poem Text First Line: Unleash the hounds Last Line: Far music glides. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTIN' WIT' OL' ROVER, by J. FARLEY RAGLAND Poem Text First Line: When things git too distressin' Last Line: Dan huntin' in de lowgrouds wit' ol' rover. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTING DOG, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You know that comical Last Line: A lesson from our dog %who only hunts for fun! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HUNTING DOGS, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: No other animal, not dog nor bull Last Line: Flashed, like man's steel, the savage teeth of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTING SONG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Black hound and blue hound Last Line: And so is the day Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM CAT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am silk and velvet Last Line: I am whispers landing, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM DOG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am tweed and carpet Last Line: I am stone and fortress, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I HAD A DOG, by O. R. Poem Source First Line: Bewhiskered sprite %of unrestrained delight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I THINK I KNOW NO FINER THINGS THAN DOGS, by HALLY CARRINGTON BRENT Poem Text First Line: Though prejudice perhaps my mind befogs Last Line: I think I know no finer things than dogs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I'M THE DOG, by GRENVILLE KLEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I'VE GOT A DOG, by ETHEL M. KELLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IF FEELING ISN'T IN IT, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: Dogs will also lick your face if you let them Last Line: On the shoulder and a voice like no other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IF JOAN OF ARC HAD A DOG, by ROBIN CLARK Poem Source First Line: Would she have heard, would she Last Line: Would not bark at the wrong time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IF YOU HAVE A DOG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loss may grieve you, love may leave you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN A LABORATORY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A most intelligent dog I took Last Line: For sometimes I see him and shudder still! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN A SHOP WINDOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: He was such a little puppy, in a window of a sho p Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN AUGUST, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sultry afternoon. The old dog Last Line: Ahead of the rattling linestorm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN OUR ABSENCE, THE NEW DOG SHREDS A FEW THINGS, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: First to be sacrificed: a pencil, a souvenir Last Line: The second-hand sweep of his wagging tail Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN THE 9TH YEAR OF THE LITERARY WAR, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Well, poetry lovers of america Last Line: Dog to coyote to wolf, %the cry went forth, %able to baker to you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN THE MANSION YARD, by WILLIAM HERVEY WOODS Poem Source First Line: There's no need to look about my feet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his morning rounds the master Last Line: Until her fellow sinks to re-appear no more. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When some proud son of man returns to earth Last Line: I never knew but one, -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph To A Dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nottinghamshire, England INSTANCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nice place ya got here Last Line: In malinche's country Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSTRUCTIONS: THE DOG (RAY SPEAKS), by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's not a pet, not meant to be Last Line: Quickly as a man can make it, in the ground Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INTERIOR DECORATOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: What fun I'm having unrolling this toilet paper Last Line: I'm a canine decorator making use of space Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INTRODUCTION TO DOGS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is man's best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IT'S FUN TO BE A PUP, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Source First Line: Man thinks he plays a lot of parts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IT'S NOT FAIR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A cat can scratch Last Line: It really isn't %very fair Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs JACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He ain't much of a dog to look at Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JANE - A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: She's short in the leg and she's long in the jaw Last Line: Does good little sister jane! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets JEALOUS CANINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Bravo was playing hard to get Last Line: When she walked away, so did he %and I was able to continue my jog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JEALOUS DOGGEREL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too much of charity's a sin! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JIM-DOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: He wasn't, well, a fancy kind o' dog Last Line: They'd find some corner, touched with love, fer him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JINNY--A COLLIE AND GOLDEN RETRIEVER MIX, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I felt the rub of a cold nose Last Line: It was the time for her to run, %impatiently her eyes met mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOGGING WITH TANYA, by THOMAS CARPER Poem Source First Line: There are disadvantages, for tanya Last Line: And though when we turn finally at our driveway %we both are glad to walk, and I am sweating Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOHN DAVIS, by R. F. MCEWEN Poem Source First Line: It was the three dogs came and then the boy Last Line: When light began to thin I shot the dog Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs JOHN PEEL, by MARK ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Do ye ken john peel with his coat so gay Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOY OF A DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ma says no, it's too much care Last Line: A dog meant to a little boy %who loved it in the long ago, %the joy that's now his right to know Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOY OF PEDIGREE, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: Some dogs I know play in the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUBILATE CANIS, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: For I will consider my dog poochkin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUNKYARD DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Watch thou and wake Last Line: Watchful even in sleep! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUST PLAIN DOG, by LYLA MYERS Poem Source First Line: It may be you don't care for dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUST PLAIN YELLOW, by ANNA HADLEY MIDDLEMAS Poem Source First Line: He's just plain yellow: no 'blue-ribbon' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KAISER DEAD APRIL 6, 1887, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What, kaiser dead? The heavy news Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KANSAS PETE, by G. A. JEWETT-TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I sit in the old armchair Last Line: "hold steady, old fellow! I'm a-comin' pete." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters KID AND HIS DOG, by LEROY J. FLEURY Poem Source First Line: Honest, mom, I didn't coax him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KILTY SUE, by MARCK LEWIS BEGGS-UEMA Poem Source First Line: Instincts jammed by lack of sleep Last Line: You are safe. She is protecting you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KISSES, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When edna, our cleaning lady, arrives, she kisses Last Line: I don't know where I could get anything better Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KLAUER'S DOG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The early sun all mane Last Line: Praying, praying to grow big & never die Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KNOWING BITCHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poet's Biography First Line: I was spading a flower bed while the old dog Last Line: The thing about bitches is knowing who you are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KNOWING BITCHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was spading a flower bed while the old dog Last Line: The thing about bitches is knowing who you are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KOAN FOR A DYING BIRD DOG, by ROBERT TREMMEL Poem Source First Line: Near the end of winter Last Line: I would guess. %mu this, old joshu Subject(s): Animals; Buddhism; Dogs KYTO CHIN GEISHA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Kyto chin geisha, princess japanese Last Line: For hearts that have truly loved never forget. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LABRADOR RETRIEVER IN A FLOWER SHOP, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Sniffing inside is more fun than outdoors Last Line: How could I have liked sidewalk odors before? %I must surely be in dog heaven now Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAD'S EPITAPH, by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some people are wise enough to know that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LADDIE, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: E's a bit of a vagabond, same as me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LADDIE'S LONG SLEEP, by JAMES CLARENCE HARVEY Poem Source First Line: He wagged his tail to the very last Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAMENT FOR THE FEET, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Except a six-year pony penned from birth Last Line: At the price of perpetual peregrination Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Last Line: Somewhere in the woods to die Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LAST NIGHT YOU ARE GONE, by RENEE A. ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: The dogs Last Line: Like black %shadows of dogs %against a too bright %moon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAWN LESSONS, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Lord, how we laughed Last Line: Why they thought being wet %would matter to those dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life LAZY SLEEPING DOGS, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: There are lazy Last Line: What I keep feeding them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LEA, SYDNEY, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: He's not a pet, not meant to be Last Line: And if you swing the gun too fast or slow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LETTERS TO YESENIN: 14, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine being a dog and never knowing what you're doing. You're Last Line: Groin hopes. You pray not to see her again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Dogs; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LIBERACE'S DOGS, by CHERYL A. RICE Poem Source First Line: Their manicured and polished claws Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIKE A PARENT WHOSE CHILD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: The dog and I await the return of our family Last Line: Thinly across the uncorked, billowing night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE DOGS AT A CONCERT, by STAN JAMES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we're at our lives Last Line: Some dogs are that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIKE FEELINGS, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight is all over the sycamores Last Line: But he knows that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LILLIE, AN IRISH SETTER AT THE WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Lillie--oh--lillie, you've captured my heart Last Line: Your glistening silky coat flops up and down, %as you strut your stuff grasping for the crown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES FOR TOPS, by JOHN P. MULGREW Poem Source First Line: It's foolish to mourn for a dog, I guess Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN'T WRITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nebuchadnezzar, von hoffman the great, then Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN'T WRITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nebuchadnezzar, von hoffman the great, then Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON A DOG'S FACE, by MICHAEL GESSNER Poem Source First Line: Wallace said, what the eye beholds may be Last Line: The repetitions that govern her earth, and mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON BOUNCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah bounce! Ah gentle beast! Why wouldst thou dye Last Line: When thou had'st meat enough, and orrery? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON THE DEATH OF A PET DOG; BELONGING TO LADY DOROTHY NEVILL, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Source First Line: Where are you now, little wandering Last Line: One little grave and a pang to us? Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs LITTLE BLACK DOG, by ELIZABETH GARDNER REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: I wonder if christ had a little black dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE CORNER WHERE HER BIG BONES NEVER FIT, by NANCY L. HOLT Poem Source First Line: Not far from the lake, a girl Last Line: While I crawled into the freezer Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE DOG BARKED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE DOG THAT WAGS HIS TAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Beseech each little boy Variant Title(s): Poem: 1185; Poem: 123 Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs LITTLE FRENCH DOG, by TOM ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: There's a little dog on the doorstep next Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE LOAF OF DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Little loaf of dog. Let's go for a walk Last Line: Great tall oaf of man, that is just my plan Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE LOST PUP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was lost! - not a shade of doubt of that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE PUPPY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little puppy with the black spots Last Line: Waiting our return Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE SAMARIAN, by ELEANOR HALBROOK ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: I've entered every gateway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE TRAMP DOG, by RENA M. MANNING Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIVING SNOW, by BRENDA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The gulls arrive in a white cloud Last Line: Back into the sky Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LONE DOG, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone Last Line: Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest! Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LONELY I GO FARING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, friend, ten years did you and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss LOSSES, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Each morning, as sun calls back Last Line: Carrying deep into shadow the body's chronic losses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey wilderness - a dog! Last Line: To home, chase out that look: 'I'm lost!'? Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST AND FOUND, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man has lost his gods. Subject(s): Dogs LOST DOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: I saw a little dog today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST DOGS, by RENEE A. ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: Sweetheart Last Line: Keep from getting lost Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST TRAIL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born rangers both of us and we were young Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOVE FOR THE DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before he opened his eyes, as he lay there under the window Subject(s): Dogs LOVE FOR THE DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before he opened his eyes, as he lay there under the window Last Line: As if there was not life still pouring out voluptously %likewild water through all his troubled vein Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOVE LETTER FROM A RUSSIAN WOLFOUND TO A SIBERIAN HUSKY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Your letter arrived Last Line: I'll think of you as they remove my stitches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOVESICK DOG PINING FOR HIS FAVORITE TROUT, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I can't understand why she left me Last Line: I suppose they're just trying to make me feel %better %by inventing this fishy tale of her death Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOYAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They gave him an overdose Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOYAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They gave him an overdose Last Line: That there is work to be done, %and almost inconsolably Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOYALTY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hardest part Subject(s): Reincarnation; Dogs; Politics & Government; Wit & Humor; Transmigration; Pretas LUGETE O VENERES CUPIDINESQUE, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Source First Line: Now that my little dog is dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LUPERCALIA, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog loved its churlish life Last Line: Age to age while the body hold, %touch this frozen one Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs MADDY'S WOODS, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: That crusty, good man john fife Last Line: That ran so hard, that grew %too big for this world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MAGGIE CREEK RANCH, ELKO, NEVADA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: The maggie creek ranch is one of the largest cattle operations in the west Last Line: Stop for him, but they'll sure as hell stop for a %couple of dogs Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) MAKING A FRIEND, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: He wouldn't come at first Last Line: Because it meant %he understood Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MALE AND FEMALE WHEATON TERRIER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: She's such an obvious flirt Last Line: A man's world is a thing of the past; %the female canines have taken over fast Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MAN AND DOG AND HORSE AND TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Friend to man, dog, horse and tree Subject(s): Dogs; Horses; Trees; Mankind MAN ON A CORNER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The man with the golden retreiver is still sitting Last Line: Of love; it shifts, sighs, lays its head close Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Men MARRIAGE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors' dogs have howled at the last Last Line: Animals trot by outside our window %for the blesing of names Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Prairies - Texas MARRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Negative proof, as in: you believe Last Line: Like crazy at the door when she comes back Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASCOT, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the glow of their youth they have come, and they pass Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTER AND THE DOG, by IGNACY KRASICKI Poem Source First Line: Because of thieves, a dog barked all night through Last Line: The silent dog was beaten all the same Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTER,' QUOTH THE AULD HOUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fra a' folk in the town Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTIFF, by JOHN GREY Poem Source First Line: He's angry as a truck engine Last Line: Wagging our tail. There's pleasure to be %had in defending the indefensible Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MATLI RANCH, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: It's like passing into a different era when you approach the dirt road Last Line: That stray bull to tend to Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) MAY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to stay with my dog Last Line: And then on the world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MEAL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the white plate %somewhat chipped Last Line: And with no fear of the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunger; Pets MEDITATIO, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs Last Line: I confess, my friend, I am puzzled. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MEMORIES, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, no! If a man does not soon pass Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MEN IN LOVE, by DREW TEN EYCK Poem Source First Line: We are met dogs come in from the lake Last Line: Bury it in a shallow grave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love; Men METAPHOR CROSSES THE ROAD, by MARTHA DEAN MCFERREN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes super cool %is nothing more than Last Line: But I'm worth something too. %let's both watch out, dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fairies; Supernatural; Winter MIRACLE, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Last spring I began riding two herds of %cows who were calving. An icy, muddy Last Line: Living, and resonates with freedom Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) MIXED BREED, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: As temperately as this spring morning unfolds Last Line: The pair sets off at an old dog's pace, %headed for afternoon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOM'S DOG RULE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mom would cringe if Last Line: Special privileges with %years of good behavior Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Mothers MONGREL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In havenpool harbour the ebb was strong Last Line: Turned to much like a curse as he sank to die, %and a loathing of mankind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MONGREL HEART, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dog bounds to the window, baying Subject(s): Family Life; Dogs; Relatives MOTHER CAT'S PURR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Sleep the half-sleep Last Line: That's what sleep is -- %for a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MOTTO FOR A DOG HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love this little house because Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOUNTAIN GOAT, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Languidly resting on the edge of a precipice Last Line: What a lesson for humans %tranquilized on bottled relaxers Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MR. LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: The night that mr. Lincoln died Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MR. PETER'S STORY: THE BAGMAN'S DOG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a litter, a litter of five Last Line: He'll be, in all likelihood, blowing up mine!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dogs; Sailing & Sailors MUD, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My neighbor shooed him out because Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MUSHERS, by JOSEPH BLETHEN Poem Source First Line: Where crawls the northern mail still Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MUSIC OF THE HOUNDS, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: O! Hark how it swells on the clear morning Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY AIREDALE DOG, by W. L. MASON Poem Source First Line: I have a funny airedale dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY BULL TERRIER, by WEX JONES Poem Source First Line: Bull terrier? Sure: she's a white 'un - there ain't no other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: A timid cringing little thing Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by ALICE JEAN CLEATOR Poem Source First Line: When living seems but little worth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON Poem Source First Line: Oh I am weary of tongues a-clacking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: You sit beside my chair, you gaze Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I GROW FAT, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: His true grace, the dog books hold Last Line: To work off fat and keep from growing dull Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG GIRLFRIEND ROSE WAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: During which I uncontrollably sobbed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Loss; Nature MY DOG JERRY, by H. DENLINGER Poem Text First Line: I have a fine dog, his name is jerry Last Line: By shaking his coat on the floor. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Tails MY DOG'S TAIL, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: What puts the wiggle in a little dog's tail Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY FAVORITE FELINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Mr. Bigelow was nowhere to be found Last Line: Now fully aroused, he nuzzled against me. %that he wanted a stroke was easy to see Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY FOX TERRIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little demon in defense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!' Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty MY HOUND'S NOSE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What a wonderful thing Last Line: Just when master goes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MY KAY, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Long time coming into your self-confidence Last Line: Against my leg %I become grounded Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) MY LITTLE DOG AND ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog knows just as much Last Line: Don't hafter care fer me. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Childhood MY LITTLE YORKSHIRE TERRIER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little bundle of fluff and fun Last Line: A calm and lovely flame. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship MY NEIGHBOR'S DOG IS PURPLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs MY OLD DAWG, by COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER Poem Source First Line: There's some o' the setter about him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY OLD HOUND PACK, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riverward they took him flying Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY TERRIER, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: A scotch patrician, sandy-haired Last Line: His tail to a contented wagging. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY UNDERDOG IS OVERWEIGHT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs MY WIFE'S LOVELY DOG, MARY, KILLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I wonder if buddha had dog nature Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature NAME OF THE AIR, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It could be like that then the beloved Last Line: Ask and then standing there without asking Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Breath; Dogs NEIGHBOR'S DOG, by GEORGIE STARBUCK GALBRAITH Poem Source First Line: O small black puppy with angel eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEW DOG: VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY JULES LAFORGUE, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new dog's sugary breath warms my neck Last Line: You cover up his final stare Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEW MOTHER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When the kittens were born Last Line: To warm them - %great ungainly hen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEWFOUNDLAND PRAISE, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: On days I don't feel pretty I go downstairs Last Line: Molly undoes my vanities and fear so I feel almost safe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEWS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Rufus brought the paper in Last Line: I think I know where rufus went Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIGHT HOWLS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Outside the house Last Line: Beneath the light. %goodnight Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Your kind of night, david, your kind of night Last Line: And in our dreams when we are somehow you. %what are we if not wholly catholic? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIGHTMARE, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU Poem Source First Line: His dog licks and licks his chest Last Line: His dog licks and licks %and licks and licks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams NIGHTSHADE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog lay under the house, having crawled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIGHTSHADE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog lay under the house, having crawled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIP AND TUCK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Both nip and tuck are spaniel pups Last Line: Or bones beneath the ground! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Dogs NOTATION ON IMMORTALITY, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sat debating many things together Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NOTICE GIVEN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in disgrace Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NOVEMBER 24, IN THE HILLS OUTSIDE FAIRBANKS, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: This morning cold and calm Last Line: Of the barely rising sun, %this is the early service Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Morning; November NUTRITION ON TAP, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Our retriever delivered a litter on ten Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OBITUARY, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finding francesca full of tears, I said Last Line: But -- kiss me, darling! -- dear old smiler's dead. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE ON THE DOG, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My pitch-dark angel with a rosy tongue! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO A DAWG, by ELOISE BURTIS Poem Source First Line: He's not so fine nor is he proud Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO A DOG, by GEORGE H. COPPAGE Poem Source First Line: How well remembers %my heart Last Line: When I bow out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO DAPHNIS A PUPPY, PLAYING WITH MIRTILLA IN BED, SELS., by JOHN STACIE Poem Source First Line: Happy daphnis, which can be Last Line: Happiest thou of sons of bitches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749) OF AN ANCIENT SPANIEL IN HER FIFTEENTH YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was never a dog that had much sense Last Line: Await us both, eternally, %but I was always ready to bark-- %and so was she Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OL' HOUND DOG, by UNKNOWN+58 Poem Source First Line: My houn' dog's gettin' anxious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD BOB' - 'FRIEND', by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: To some folks he was just a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by CELIA DUFFIN Poem Source First Line: Now that no shrill hunting horn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Old dog! Old dog! %why do you hold your paw so? Last Line: Breathe deep. Breathe deep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: His memory is dim Last Line: He comes back here %to lie down Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The dog gazes at his food Last Line: The scorned bowl glows Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by NANCY B. WALL Poem Source First Line: When her rabies tag arrived in the mail Last Line: Can hold back time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Rabies OLD DOG DEAD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cocker. English. Fifteen years old. Tumor Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Anim Als OLD DOG IN THE RUINS OF THE GRAVES AT ARLES, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard tell somewhere Last Line: The old dogs don't know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG TRAY, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morn of life is past Last Line: A better friend than old dog tray. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG'S SONG, SELS., by LESLIE NORRIS Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOGS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those trotskys of relationships Last Line: Famous for not letting you down Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Relationships OLD MAN THROWING A BALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is tight at first, stiff, stands there atilt Subject(s): Old Age; Dogs; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OLD SHEEP WAGON, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard men for a palace but I want no Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD SONNY, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: Took old sonny into a bar one time Last Line: Speak, always speak up: a dog's an act of belief Subject(s): Animals; Bars And Bartenders; Dogs OLD SOOT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: His fur is black; we call him soot Last Line: When it is ime to go Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs OMAR MEETS A TOY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quite gentle is a st. Bernard Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON 'SHEP,' A PET DOG, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: We live in separate worlds, I cannot pierce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A DOG'S COLLAR, SALTASH FAIR, CORNWALL (19TH CENTURY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fools have been peeping and wanting to see! Last Line: So mind your own business and leave me alone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A FAVOURITE DOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou who passest on the path Last Line: Likewise engraved those words on my tomb Subject(s): Animals;death - Animals;dogs;epitaphs ON A LITTLE DOG, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cattullus of a sparrow sung Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the stone says it holds the white dog Last Line: Voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs ON A SMALL DOG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Animula vagula blandula, foundling dear Last Line: And so to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Tokyo ON A SPANIEL, CALLED BEAU, KILLING A YOUNG BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spaniel, beau, that fares like you Last Line: So much resemble man? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON MY DOG'S DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: My friend has gone Last Line: I am learning to listen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics ON PARTING WITH SPOT, by HELEN LOUISE WELSHIMER Poem Source First Line: Won't somebody please take care of spot? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON PETS, by AUGUST STRINDBERG Poem Source First Line: I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards Last Line: Who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE COLLAR OF MRS. DINGLEY'S LAP-DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray steal me not, I'm mrs. Dingley's Last Line: Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, ECHO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wood and wild, ye warbling throng Last Line: With echo silent lies. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, SELS., by JONATHAN SMEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Erigone, celestial maid Last Line: Cou'd take a pinch; or relish tea Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF ECHO, A FAVOURITE BEAGLE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silent at last, beneath the silent ground Last Line: But now dumb death has chok'd poor echo's cry %and to no call can echo more reply Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE DOG ANGEL, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: False tears of light on macadam Last Line: Gnawing the bones of shooting stars Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE SKELETON OF A HOUND, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Skeletons; Dogs; Death - Animals ONCE IN KHAIROUAN, SOUTH OF TUNIS, A YELLOW KABYL DOG BIT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: He or she would immediately recognize it as such Subject(s): Dogs; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) ONE EASTER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stores wore christmas perfectly Last Line: And bit by bit the page begins to fill Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Easter; Dogs ONE OF THE ANIMALS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does a dog get sick Last Line: — you tell me. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The ONE WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The secretary was a presence grim Last Line: His little dog watched for him at the gate Subject(s): Animals;dogs;eyes;friendship;presence ONLY A DOG, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: He left no relatives,' they said Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONLY A DOG, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just now a little group stood on the shore Last Line: Whence is the star?' I said; 'the dog, where gone?' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONLY A DOG, by GRENVILLE KLEISER Poem Source First Line: I'm only a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ORDINARY DOG, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When brother takes me walking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OULD HOUND, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: When shamus made shift wid a turf-hut Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OUTCAST IN HELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: During a lull in the stygian flames Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OUTLAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wild and woeful race he ran Last Line: For mercy at my judgment seat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Paris, France OVER THE HILLS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old hound wags his shaggy tail Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters OWNERSHIP, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: It's quite the vogue to own a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs P BAR RANCH, KIRKLAND, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: A beautiful high desert valley spreads along the winding boundaries of the Last Line: Night sounds and smells of the peaceful pine forest Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) PAINTING OF PRINCE FELIPE PROSPERO BY VELASQUEZ, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The little prince stands behind the royal chair Last Line: The sovereign makes a royal splash, %then the prince %tucks him in bed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PALS, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: You see us every morning Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANDA-MONIUM, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My trip to washington wasn't complete Last Line: He showed off his beautiful black and white coat, %in a manner that showed he was trying to gloat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANEGYRIC FOR GEE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The anachronistic face of the bulldog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANEGYRIC FOR GEE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The anachronistic face of the bulldog Last Line: Whose singing sober voice alone breaks hearts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Last Line: But whether this was false or honest dreaming %I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning PARIS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white poodle named gigi. A fingernail Last Line: To whom shall I give it? Subject(s): Paris, France; Dogs; Love PASSING OF THISTLE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is our first summer without a dog Last Line: The weekends that we spent in the house together %letting each other in and out of doors Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PATSY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Puppy dog, rough as a bramble Last Line: Rats, little hound of beelzebub, rats! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets PAVLOV'S DOG, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Last night, late, a light rain Last Line: And brutal as a bell ringing, %always ringing, for sorrow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PEARL AND I ARE FAR TOO FAT, by ELIZABETH M. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My granddaughters named her pearl, not me Last Line: Hopefully, she covered me with kisses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PET STORE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: No one looking - %the homeless boy Last Line: Pats a puppy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE AT THE SEASHORE, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ran along the yellow sand Last Line: And play beside the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE'S HOLIDAY, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We found a hill all green with grass Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE'S THEOLOGY, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God made seas to play beside Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETRONIUS, by FREDERIC P. LADD Poem Source First Line: A dog there was, petronius by name Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PHANTOM DOG, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: A woman heard something being torn Last Line: With green, even in january Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PINK DOG, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: His stage is a circle of printed snow Last Line: Into a suffusion of passing light where he flies on gravity's tip: %a pink dog above a pink snow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO), by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO), by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: Dress up! Dress up and dance at carnival! Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro PLACE IN THE WOODS, by NANCY JESSER Poem Source First Line: After I found the dogs Last Line: The house made dark with it %and losing color Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs PLEASE PASS THE BISCUIT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little dog Last Line: Spangle, I wish you %a ripe old dortage Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POCHO POEM, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My perro's named semaforo Last Line: But when his eyes glow, %everybody %stops Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POEM FOR LITTLE DOGS, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all the faithful little dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POEM TO BEGIN THE SECOND DECADE OF AIDS, by BOYER RICKEL Poem Source First Line: The dog, alive, lucy, my light, sleeps Last Line: Simply drape across a reclining form Subject(s): Aids (disease); Animals; Dogs; Sickness POETIC TALE, by GRACE MADDOCK MILLER Poem Source First Line: Oh give me a pup Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAISE OF A COLLIE, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was a small dog, neat and fluid Last Line: I grieved for pollochan when he took her a stroll %and put his gun to the back of her head Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Mourning PRAYER FOR DOGS, by GOLDIE CAPERS SMITH Poem Source First Line: Good master, bless each dog that no one owns Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER FOR PRINCE, by BETSEY MANN COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Dear god, way up there in the sky Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER FOR THE DOGS IN WAR, by MRS. E. WORTHING Poem Source First Line: Oh god, in your highest glory Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use PRAYER FOR THE OLD BALLPLAYER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: May dog heaven %abound Last Line: Angels %to throw them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER OF THE DONKEY, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD Poem Source First Line: O god, who made me Last Line: All danger is driven away Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Dogs; Donkeys PREFERENCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those little woolly insect things Last Line: I like a dog as is a dog! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PREPARATION, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bone-man lives in a stucco Subject(s): Family Life; Dogs; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PREY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're walking through stubble and rain Last Line: His meat, as the sun that rises is his fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Nature; Hunters PRUDENCE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Mad dog! Cried some one Last Line: In the opposite direction. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wisdom PUP DOG'S OPINION OF THE QUICK TEMPERED MAN, by ROWLAND C. BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm a pup dog and I know it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PUP IN THE SNOWSTORM, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lop eared pup looking up at me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Snow PUPPY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: We brought our puppy Last Line: Waking me up %tickling my toes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PUPPY, by ROBERT L. TYLER Poem Source First Line: Catch and shake the cobra garden hose Last Line: Rainbows to the yap yap sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PYGMY HUT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees Last Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees %& made a %plopping %sound %as they hit %the poodles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PYTHAGORAS AND THE DOG, by XENOPHANES Poem Text First Line: Once he was passing by an ill-used pup Last Line: I recognized it when I heard it yell.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.) QUALITY, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My little dog lies curled asleep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RADIO, by DOROTHY BEEDY Poem Text First Line: All afternoon wind and rain Last Line: And brought your slippers to your chair. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGGED ROVER, by LESLIE CLARE MANCHESTER Poem Source First Line: I have still a vision of him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGGLES, by ROBERT C. V. MEYERS Poem Source First Line: Says the colonel to the sergeant, 'I was kept awake all night' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGS, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: We called him 'rags,' he was just a cur Last Line: I'll take my chance in hell. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAIN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: Rain is making a racket in the gutter Last Line: And their own tight unknown bodies Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting RAINING CATS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining cats Last Line: They're purring down %on top of me Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs RAINING DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining dogs Last Line: And cur-rents cover %half the town Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs RANCH DOG (AS A RANCH DOG MIGHT TELL IT), by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Now I don't go to groomers %gettin' clipped and sprayed and fluffed Last Line: I'll live and die a ranch dog %that's the only life for me Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) RCA VICTOR, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is seated by the victrola Last Line: The dog wonders %trembling slightly Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RED DOG, by GRACE GRAFTON Poem Source First Line: She sits at attention Last Line: Begins to whisper again %the story of seeds Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RELIGION, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last thing the old dog brought home Subject(s): Dogs; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers REMARKS FROM THE PUP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's taught me that I mustn't bark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs REMARKS TO MY GROWN-UP PUP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By rules of fitness and of tense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs REMEMBERING THAT CITY BUS RIDE IN QUITO, EQUADOR, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: I saw it first: a black dog Last Line: Like a blanket of exhaust Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Driving And Drivers; Equador REQUIEM TO A DOG IN THE RAIN, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: A winter-haunted sky Last Line: Death embraces the dog. %cars continue to honk Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs RETRIEVER, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had a dog to take me different Subject(s): Dogs RETURN, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: Upon reaching home I wrote this poem sitting in the car Last Line: Black dog I love you %who owns no objects Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RETURN OF REX AND ETHEL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In our town there is a quiet street that runs to the edge of open fields Last Line: Pepper and belle get on their bus to school. %another day begins Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grief RHAPSODY ON A DOG'S INTELLIGENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dog that seems to stand and gravely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RIDING THE SUBWAY IN NEW YORK, I REMEMBER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time I was ten and walking Last Line: Wherever I wanted Subject(s): Dogs RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Short for el rito. The town dog Last Line: For rito, the town dog - a free spirit! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Graves ROAD TO VAGABONDIA, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was sitting on a doorstep Last Line: And all the stars to spend! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wanderers And Wandering ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS WITH THE DOGS OF AMERICA, by ADA LIMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a day when all the dogs of all Subject(s): Dogs RODGERSON'S DOUG, by WILLIAM AITKEN Poem Text First Line: In oor famed sugar city o' tierces and bags Last Line: Had some men the judgment o' rodgerson's doug. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ROGER AND I, by JULIAN S. CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Well, roger, my dear old doggie, they say Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RON, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: His name is ron Last Line: Like air, like dreams Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROSY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you walked in with your suitcase, leaving Last Line: You understand, the animal means nothing to me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROTTWEILERS, by MARGOT K. JUBY Poem Source First Line: The rottweilers at number forty have gone Last Line: They didn't belong here. And nor do I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROVER, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No classic warrior tempts my pen Last Line: We'll keep the nook for rover. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROYALTY, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two tall dogs on the road to georgetown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RUBY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ruby is dead! And before her no more Last Line: When they look at thy hearthrug-'poor ruby is dead!' Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Murder RUNNING, by JOHN ALLMAN Poem Source First Line: Up into mist before dawn, panting on the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs S BAR S RANCH, KAMAS, UTAH, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: An interstate 80 stretches to the east of salt lake city, the golden foothills Last Line: Under the huge oaks that surround the old %victorian house the simpsons call home Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) SAINT BERNARD, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: The fundamental things that owners need Last Line: It slobbers on all objects in its path Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SAME OLD STORY, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Old moon rising %white as bone Last Line: Same old hound dog. %same old coon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SANCTUARY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbour! For pity a hound cries on your steps Last Line: "off from my door! I have no place for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Rejection SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nose only above water Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nose only above water Last Line: Last of her line Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SCHOLAR AND THE [OR HIS] DOG, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was a scholar: seven useful springs Last Line: At length he waked and yawned: and by yon sky %for aught I knew he knew as much as I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SCHOLARLY POOCH, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A silky, white west-highland terrier Last Line: Perhaps he's solving the dilemma %of overcrowding in the kennels Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SEASONS: AUTUMN, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across cold, moon-bright Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SELLING A DOG, by IRWIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: H'yat, pot-liquor! What you at? You heah me callin' you? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SENTIMENTAL DANGERS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When out of work and fierce with self-pity Last Line: And the river smelled like a wet, unwanted dog Subject(s): Unemployment; Dogs SERENADE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs on a summer nights Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHADOW, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Who knows where the grooming brush Last Line: In the yards of men? %shadow knows Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHAR-PEI STORE DETECTIVE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The sign said 'magoo is on vacation.' Last Line: But suddenly I appear on the scene %and what startled looks my presence brings Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHEEP-HERDING, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: A gray, slow-moving, dust-powered wave, Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHEEPDOG TRIALS IN HYDE PARK; FOR ROBERT FROST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd stands at one end of the arena Last Line: Controlled woolgathering is my work too Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shepherds & Sheperdesses SHEEPDOG TRIALS IN HYDE PARK; FOR ROBERT FROST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd stands at one end of the arena Last Line: Of shepherding the unruly, for a kind of %controlled woolgathering is my work too Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHOOTING PRAIRIE DOGS, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I lie down in the short grass Last Line: The dog falls in his hole; his heart lies on the edge, %quivering Subject(s): Prairie Dogs SHOOTING THE DOG, by JUNE JORDAN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs SIGNALS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: I have heard that the dead Last Line: You know, you really deserve this good life.' Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SIGNS OF SIGNS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To have been bitten once by a dog is quite enough Last Line: I look for signs of signs everywhere Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Restaurants; Signs And Signboards SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: The dog exploded Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: Heart straining, to utter that cry? - but %cannot, breath short Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans SINGING AND BARKING, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps in my bed like an enormous lizard, he says Last Line: Take my word for it Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Singing And Singers SIR WALTER'S FRIEND, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: Your invitation, sir, to dine %with you ...' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SIX FEET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My little rough dog and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SMALL DEFEATS: BURYING A DOG, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: See how, in death, it seems to grin Last Line: Fears are not banished by a grin Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SNAKE OF A MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Somebody poisoned my dog today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, / and all of these millions Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, %and all of these millions Last Line: The strange reflected light %of a dead moon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO YOU PUT THE DOG TO SLEEP, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You love your dog and carve his steaks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SO YOU PUT THE DOG TO SLEEP, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You love your dog and carve his steaks Last Line: So you put the dog to sleep. Bad dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOCRATES, A MINIATURE SCHNAUZER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My wisdom is known far and wide Last Line: The defendant was reduced to uncontrollable tears, %when I sent him to prison for many years Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOLDIER'S DOG, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: Oftener than he'd like it known Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOME DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Some dogs guard Last Line: He's sure some pet Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs SOME NIGHTS THE DARK HILL, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: When, walking in the park at twilight Last Line: Walks at evening with his three black dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Night SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night joan sutherland was nuancing Last Line: Imagine! The journey, the delicacy of the arrival Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOMETHING SORTO' HEALING, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: One time when I sat talking to a friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And Wes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair SONG OF THE BLACK DOG, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my black dog sings Last Line: In the south woods almost rise %in alarm to bound away Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And if I indulge in a bite at a bulge, %let's hope you won't think me too vicious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNET FOR MY DOG, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: In distant lands the statesmen scheme and plot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNET TO TARTAR, A TERRIER BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye Last Line: Solicitudes canine, four-footed amities. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNET TO THE KYNGE, by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE Poem Text First Line: Sire, your dogge lemon, once your bed-fellowe Last Line: On your devotion waits a like rewarde. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Dogs; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNETS FROM ONE STATE WEST: 2. SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again Last Line: Quickly enough on their own sweet time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNETS FROM ONE STATE WEST: 2. SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again Last Line: All burning down to ash and grime %quickly enough on their own sweet time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOON, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I say the word walk, or even spell it, Subject(s): Language; Dogs; Words; Vocabulary SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 5. THE DOGS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My desires are upon me like dogs, I beat them back Last Line: And my soul be these dogs' meat. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul SPACE STATION, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and I and the dog were floating Subject(s): Mothers; Dogs; Weightlessness SPAN OF LIFE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old dog barks backward without getting up Last Line: I remember when he was a pup Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPARKLING BRANDY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Brandy tumbled, rolled, and jumped on me Last Line: But I surrendered to his eager display of love, %'come brandy, up again!' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPELL, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: It is the eyes Last Line: I give him a treat - %again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPILL OF MOON, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: On the bedroom floor - %silver retriever Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPIRITS OF DOGS, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Out here in the vast landscapes %the big sky Last Line: The spirits of dogs dance in my heart Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) SPRINGER SPANIEL NAMED FRECKLES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A springer spaniel with large brown eyes beckoned me Last Line: But found no treasure %to equal the canine treat I had Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ST. LAZARUS OF THE DOGS', by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: When I am come to heaven's door Last Line: To keep me from alarm Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) STALKING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A tremble of grass Last Line: And the crunching of bones %after Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs STATE OF THE UNION: 9. PHAEMON'S DOG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A race at one time across country Last Line: With so much meat in their mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs STATUE OF A DOG, by MACEDONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This hound (no chase too stern for such a creature) Last Line: He's barking, I'll be bound, -- good dog, go home!' Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STONE SAYS THAT IT COVERS HERE THE WHITE DOG., by TYMNES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of night contain that creature's barking voice Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STORM, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Outside, the night %is drowning Last Line: Leaps %into my lap Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STORMY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What name could Subject(s): Dogs; Names STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STRAY DOG, NEAR ECULLY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog called sesame slewed out Subject(s): Dogs STRUTHIOUS FARMS, LITTLETON, COLORADO, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: When one thinks of 'ranches' one usually thinks of cows and cowboys Last Line: Seat to the obvious enjoyment these 'gentle giants' exhibit while %guarding their 'flerd' Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) SUBSIDY, by WILLIAM M. BRONK Poem Source First Line: Well, I don't know: that crazy dog Last Line: Is elsewhere. Welcome morning. Give me joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs will give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs shall give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUDIVIDED (FOR JUDY MATLI), by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: I was there just twice before Last Line: That dog and ranch had died Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again Subject(s): Dogs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SUNNING, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: Old dog lay in the summer sun Last Line: Much too lazy to rise and run Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SURE THING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Love the poetry sure %the whack and ring Last Line: Like mature steaming on the trail Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) SUSQUEHANNA COUNTRY, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those many dark nights in our wedding house Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUSQUEHANNA COUNTRY, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those many dark nights in our wedding house Last Line: I thought I could not %run out of them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SWEEP, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Auld sweep, your muzzle's grey Last Line: Sweep, the noo! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SYCAMORE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pecooliarity of his bark Last Line: "he never'll sic 'em more." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Plane Trees; Dead, The; Sycamores SYMPATHETIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I start out to walk, our dog he seems to know Last Line: He leaves me sittin' somewheres and a-feelin' just that way! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Sympathy; Childhood; Empathy TAFFY, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were tired of the easter chicks Last Line: Usn to remember, once forget Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TALE OF A DOG, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Curse on all curs!' I heard a cynic cry Last Line: E'en from a dog to learn a christian virtue! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TALKING TO THE MOON, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Out with the dog Last Line: And all that space %that couldn't care less Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moon; Walking TANGO, A POODLE DOG, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: He glided smoothly down the street Last Line: That matched his mistress' jacket, %the ginger rogers and fred astaire %of 1983 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TEN SONGS: 5, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The single creature leads a partial life Last Line: In all his walks I follow at his side, %his faithful servant and his loving shade Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): The Single Creature; Cats And Dog Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 1. A DOG SEPARATED FROM ITS MASTER, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Behind crimson gates for four or five years Last Line: Upon the red silk rug Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dogs THANKS, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I met them on the trail today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THAT LITTLE DOG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE BALLAD OF BLOSSOM, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is known as west branch pond Subject(s): Owls; Cows; Nature; Dogs THE BALLAD OF THE LITTLE BLACK HOUND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks at the geraldine's door tonight Last Line: The laugh of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#67), by MARVIN BELL Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE CHARGE OF OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We have to remember: when raglan and others Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Dogs THE CHOW, A DOG OF ANCIENT ORIGIN, HAS A BLUE-BLACK TONGUE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet we accept her kisses, affectionate as air Last Line: Glances off the black- / lined mouth, the dogtooth violet Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Dogs; Tongues THE CLEARING, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog and I push through the ring Last Line: Is wait for you to come back to me Subject(s): Dogs; Love - Loss Of THE COYOTE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veering down the track like a girl veering down a cobbled street Subject(s): Dogs THE CURATE THINKS YOU HAVE NO SOUL, by ST. JOHN LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curate thinks you have no soul Last Line: May leap to lick my phantom hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucas-lucas, St. John Welles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE CYNOTAPH, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Where shall I bury my poor dog tray Last Line: And that put him out of his pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DAINTY DOG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty dog had chanced to note Last Line: "invite me, pray, with you to dine!" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DANGEROUS DOG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dangerous dog in the drawing-room lay Last Line: A bumble-bee close to his head! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DIAMOND DOG, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs THE DINGO-CHASER, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: His camp was warm in the wilgas, the scent of the dew was sweet Last Line: He follows across the midnight the way that the wild dog goes. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Death; Dingoes; Dogs; Story-telling; Dead, The THE DOG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog was there, outside her door Last Line: To open them for her! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Text First Line: Near the military barracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government THE DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The truth I do not stretch or shove Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs THE DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What was I doing with my white teeth exposed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husky-masked, bologna-tongued, pfoxer Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs THE DOG IN THE RIVER, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The churl that wants another's fare Last Line: Both shade and substance, beef and bone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Gluttony THE DOG OF ART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That dog with daisies for eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG SITTERS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends, we tried so hard Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Dogs THE DOG STOLTZ, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog stoltz pushed his paw pads into my neck Subject(s): Dogs; Poetry & Poets THE DOG'S TURN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're at me all the day Last Line: I guess what's good for baby boys is good for doggies too. Subject(s): Animals; Baths & Bathing; Boys; Cleanliness; Dogs; Showers & Showering THE DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if there could be a world Last Line: Does your smeared forehead out-top the gracious mountain? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE DOLLAR DOG , by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dollar dog named spot Last Line: But a lot of kinds to get for a dollar Subject(s): Dogs THE DROWNED SPANIEL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day-long bluster of the storm was o'er Last Line: Betwixt the rainbow and the golden sea. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Drowning THE FAITHFUL DOG, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! How he strives to rescue from the flood Last Line: Faithful to death. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE GIFT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE GOOD DOG OF BRETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "should you ever go to brette, be sure you don't fail" Last Line: He fares -- the poor man! -- like the poodle of brette! Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE HARPER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the green banks of shannon, when sheelah was nigh Last Line: I can nevermore return with my poor dog tray. Variant Title(s): The Irish Harper And His Dog;poor Dog Tray Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shannon (river), Ireland THE HIRED MAN'S DOG-STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs, I contend; its jes' about Last Line: "how the other gits its livin'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy THE INTRUDER, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Subject(s): Friendship; Dogs THE JACQUERIE: SONG. THE HOUND, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hound was cuffed, the hound was kicked Last Line: (all.) u-lu-lo, howled the hound. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE LEGEND OF LADY GERTRUDE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds Last Line: The phantom of a lady and a hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Death; Dogs THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LITTLE DOG BARKED AT THE BUGGY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Downey o'gloom, with pardonable pride Last Line: The terrier barks at our buggy. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog-woggy Last Line: The world. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LONELY DOG, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: He often came and stood outside my door Last Line: He only craved an understanding friend. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE MANEATER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: James jimpson has a savage pup, and Last Line: Or this old world in which we dwell will furnish rocky sledding. Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Dogs THE MESSENGERS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The huge dog, broderick, and Subject(s): Dogs THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Herein my mountain home Last Line: All west of gundagai!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MYSTERY MAN, by NETTIE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Going home in the dusk from the township Last Line: Dan kelly, the brother of ned! Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Dogs; Rumors THE NOR'WEST COURIER, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: Up, my dogs, merrily Last Line: Must buffet the foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Northwest, Pacific THE OLD DOG, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: He lies upon the rug before the fire Last Line: He knows, dear dog, our love for him won't fail. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE OLD DOG IN THE RUINS OF THE GRAVES AT ARLES, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard tell somewhere Last Line: The old dogs don’t know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE PACK'S LAST HUNT, by JR. HART IRVING H. Poem Text First Line: No, boy, I haven't had a pack or run Last Line: "seems like I have damn rotten luck with dogs." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters THE PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE PASSING OF THISTLE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is our first summer without a dog. Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts THE PET COON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noey bixler ketched him, an' fetched him in to me Last Line: "er 'greedy,' next he whips yer dog, shall whip you, too!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Raccoons THE PETITION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FARMER'S DOG TO HIS MASTER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must the law's inexorable doom Last Line: And sweet humanity crown all her race. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!' Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood THE PLEA OF THE DEFENDANT (ON A PICTURE OF A MUZZLED PUPPY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, here I'm muzzled, fast and tight Last Line: Was growl a little bit. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 61, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see hundreds of dogs Last Line: A pack of dogs can't share Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Dogs; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE POET AND HIS DOGS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on, my dogs! Come sandy, mozambique Last Line: Home let us wander o'er the dusky hills! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul THE PUP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tore the curtains yesterday Last Line: She scolds a lot about the pup. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE PUPPY CLASS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell them all that a's for appetite Last Line: Who lick your face and bark and tumble down. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Childhood THE SADNESS OF PUPPIES, by BARBARA RAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up there, squirrels, teasing and clacking Subject(s): Grief; Dogs; Sorrow; Sadness THE SEEING EYE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The small dogs look at the big dogs Last Line: That we find minute observation. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The emperor rose at dawn of day / and bade them bring his son straightway Last Line: "his son he back to prison sent, / upon his way the master went" Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SIXTH ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philos of his dog doth brag Last Line: Make haste again. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SLAYING OF CONBEG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sore grief to me, conbeg, that you are drowned" Last Line: "a fill of sorrow, alas! Through life to me" Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Last Line: Whose hide is covered with hair Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And West Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair THE SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And that bees never work in their hives Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Cats; Lobsters; Bees THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience; Army Life; Dogs THE STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE THREE JOLLY HUNTERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O there were three jolly hunters Last Line: Looky there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night and the north Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE TRUST, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something was killing sheep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE TWA DOGS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in that place o' scotland's isle Last Line: Resolv'd to meet some ither day. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE UNDER-DOG, by MARTHA TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: My whole life long I've been an under-dog Last Line: And never know the thrill of seeking fame. Subject(s): Under-dogs THE VAGABONDS, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are two travellers, roger and I Last Line: The sooner the better for roger and me! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez / the little white dog on the victor label Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography THE WARRIGAL (WILD DOG OF AUSTRALIA), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warrigal's lair is pent in bare Last Line: Where his mates are torrent and tree. Subject(s): Animals; Dingoes; Dogs THE WILD BEAST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One spring as I went walking Last Line: Upon an easter morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fights; Lions THE WOLVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night while the dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE YOUNG MAN FROM PALL MALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young man from pall mall Last Line: And he was eat by a dog in the hall Subject(s): Animals;dogs;errors;imagination;rabbits; Mistakes;fallacies;fancy;hares THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF ANCONA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That anxious old man of ancona Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THIS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Face flashing free -- child-arms Last Line: I wanted this from you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THIS AFTERWARD, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: The sand in the eye Last Line: And you're just walking and walking %by yourself Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THIS TREE, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Said the little plaque in sober brass Last Line: I'll never love a god damn stump Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THREE-LEGGED DOG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Which I wanted as allegory Last Line: At teeth, phlegmatic, the only one of his retinue %attentive Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THROES, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: In the photograph in the magazine, forty-eight lumberjacks and two Last Line: Their midst are crossed saws, five axes and twelve wedges upright like headstones Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THROUGH FIELDS OF MOONLIGHT, by RAELENE NEWELL WHITE Poem Text First Line: An eager hound through fields of moonlight ran Last Line: Beauty forgotten for little hares of rest? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THUNDER AND LIGHTNIN', by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: How come you keep that worthless hound?' Last Line: Now. Thunder is a good cow dog, %but lightnin'-he's the king! Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) TO 'SILK', by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I know that my dog has a soul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A BULL-DOG, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A COLLIE PUP, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody had to show you Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A COLLIE PUP, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody had to show you Last Line: And the degree %of master of arts Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DACHSHOUND, by E. T. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: My faithful peter, mount upon my knee Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear faithful object of my tender care Last Line: Could boast thy grateful truth and spotless fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Dogs TO A DOG, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Past happiness dissolves. It fades away Last Line: If but his footstep sounded on the stair! Variant Title(s): His Vanished Master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I - Casualties TO A DOG, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Though sometimes narrowing as a wolf's might do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG DREAMING, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What golden rabbits do you chase Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is myself / not the poor beast lying there Last Line: To believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is myself %not the poor beast lying there Last Line: Let all men believe it, as you have taught me also %to believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG'S MEMORY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gusty morns are here Last Line: And keep the watch for me. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG, GROWN BLIND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Safe tethered by his master's loving hand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often as I strain and stew Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often as I strain and stew Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A PUPPY, by LEWETTE BEAUCHAMP POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: Oh, puppy with the floppy ears Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A SPANIEL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, daisy! Lift not up thy ear Last Line: These many days, and start and weep. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Crib, on your grave beneath the chestnut boughs Last Line: Ere death the dog-thief carried you afar! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets TO A VAUDEVILLE TERRIER SEEN ON A LEASH IN THE PARK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three times a day - at two, at seven, at nine Last Line: To be -- alas, how seldom -- just a dog! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO AN IRISH SETTER PUP, by UNKNOWN+20 Poem Source First Line: Shamus is an irish dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO AN IRISH TERRIER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Rough is your coat and sharp the bite and bark Last Line: In answer to our call and every need. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets TO BUCK, by VERA C. STALLKNECHT Poem Text First Line: Come, lay your velvet head across my knee Last Line: Our god will not resent your presence there. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO CHILDREN: FOR TYRANTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike not thy dog with a stick! Last Line: For the hound slain for saving his child. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guilt; Hunting; Hunters TO FLUSH, MY DOG, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loving friend, the gift of one Last Line: Loving fellow-creature! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO JOHN, MY COLLIE, by WALTER PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: So you have left me. Here's the end Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO LUATH (ROBERT BURNS' DOG), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, luath, man, when you came prancing Last Line: And yours the blame! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dogs; Poetry & Poets TO MY DEAD DOG, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is noiseless Last Line: We, like leo, lie at rest! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY DOG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear! When I leave you Last Line: As now you pull my sleeve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Variant Title(s): Abandonment Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Longing TO MY DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often wonder why on earth Last Line: That women always fall for. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY DOG BLANCO, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear dumb friend, low lying there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY DOG, JOWLER, by JONATHAN DORR BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Jowler, they have taxed you, honest friend! Last Line: And vote with the majority! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Taxes TO MY OL' DAWG DRIVE, by ROWLAND EVANS ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: When ye wag y'r tail an' yelp, a snoozin' Last Line: I du, ol' dawg. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY PUPPIES, by SUZANNE POPE Poem Text First Line: A funny little bull pup Last Line: God grant they have nine lives. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY PUPPY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I think of you, I think of bones Last Line: You show your love in other ways Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs TO MY SETTER, SCOUT, by FRANK H. SELDEN Poem Text First Line: You are a tried and loyal friend Last Line: We both together there will dwell? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain! We often heretofore Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches TO RUFUS, A SPANIEL, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rufus, a bright new year! A savoury stew Last Line: Salute your master as he steps to land. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO SCOTT - A COLLIE, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, your place is empty now Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO SUP LIKE A PUP, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source Last Line: What luck! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO TIM - AN IRISH TERRIER, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O jewel of my heart, I sing your praise Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO TOWSER, by CYRIL BRETHERTON Poem Source First Line: No pampered pound of peevish fluff Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOAST, by JUNE PROVINE Poem Source First Line: I raise ... My glass to all good dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOLD TO THE MISSIONARY, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just look'ee here, mr. Preacher, you're Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOMORROW I LEAVE TO EL PASO, TEXAS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See my brother-in-law with a styled shirt Last Line: It is the same one but I am hopeful Subject(s): Homecoming; Dogs TOWSER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets TOWSER SHALL BE TIED TONIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Slow the kansas sun was setting o'er the wheat fields far away Last Line: "take her, boy, and make her happy. Towser shall be tied tonight" Subject(s): Animals;dogs TRAGEDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A high bred young puppy from skye Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TRURO, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: The dog and I stumble on rough cut gravel Last Line: There's only sudden storms in the night, %only the dark road Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Night; Roads TRUST, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something was killing sheep Last Line: Light, %brings him home to his proud husbandry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TRYING TO WRITE YOU A POEM ON OUR ANNIVERSARY, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: With a vocabulary of imitations Last Line: From their devotion, whether or not they see it %as that, or understand the broken silence Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TURKISH TRENCH DOG, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near Last Line: And sniffing at my prostrate form unnerved %he licked my face! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWO CANINE TREASURES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Chacha and cali raced around me Last Line: Could hardly compare %with these two lively creatures of god Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS, by STEPHEN DOWDALL Poem Source First Line: One porcelain white Last Line: I held your razor to my throat %here's mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: There were two puppies Last Line: When one dog died so did the other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS DISCUSSING TELEVISION, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A black-and-white shitzu and brown-and-white lhassa Last Line: She was always rescuing people, affirms the lhassa Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS HAVE I, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years we've had a little dog Last Line: And the little dog slept by the big dog, %and her head was on his flank Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 1. FOR PAINTER/POET ALAN CHONG LAU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It was an ink on rice paper day Last Line: Vying with the crows for deepest black Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 2. FOR MY SISTER, SANDRA HANKINS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We returned from cancer's kingdom Last Line: Has lapped up sophie dog Subject(s): Animals; Cancer (disease); Death; Death - Animals; Dogs TWO SIBERIAN HUSKIES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Tundra followed remus quickly to the door Last Line: Tundra curled up in her soft bed, %on the floor lay remus dreaming only of his sled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNCLE DOG: THE POET AT 9, by ROBERT SWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not want to be old mr. Last Line: And a bitch at every second can Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNDER DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know that this world - that the great big. Subject(s): Under-dogs UNDERSTANDING, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it seems as if a dog can sense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNREPENTANCE, by LILIAN B. FORDE Poem Text First Line: I am a dog. With a rip and a roar Last Line: I am a dog. Good night. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNSATISFIED YEARNING, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the silent hallway Last Line: In order to get in. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see Last Line: Teare, that deserves of me a million. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs UPON THE HORRID PLOT DISCOVERED BY HARLEQUIN ... FRENCH DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I asked a whig the other night Last Line: Your bishops are all dogs indeed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VENETIAN DOG, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bad day in bellini country, venetian dog high-stepper Last Line: In titian's great altarpiece, in supplication, what indeed? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: Nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: And let you snuggle down beside. %nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERSES UNDER SIR HENRY LEE'S PICTURE AT DITCHLEY PARK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Reason in man can not effect such love Last Line: Only my dog, whereof I made no store, %I find more love, then them I trusted more Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VICAR'S TRIBUTE; 'PLUM-PUDDING'S' EPITAPH, by GEORGE ARBUTHNOT Poem Source First Line: Pudding!,' companion of my parish round Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez %the little white dog on the victor label Last Line: No honey for the vanquished? Art is art. %the life it asks of us is a dog's life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks VILLAGE DOGS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Groggy, we watched the ball descend Last Line: In the decades' first hour, who %could deny that the marriage was over? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Marriage; Pets VISIT TO THE REST HOME, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Jasper is old and thin Last Line: Like the bold and busy eyes %of a wren Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VISITING THE VET, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My dog is trembling Last Line: I am here, girl. I am here.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VOICE AND FUR, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VOICE AND FUR, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Last Line: Drizzle across the clouds that are %now starting to separate Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WAITING WITH YOU, by JULIE BROOKS BARBOUR Poem Source Last Line: Tell him we'll paint the bedroom and buy new drapes, %maybe a couch for the den Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Dogs; Life; Waiting WAKING THE DEAF DOG, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: It used to be the light would wake him, just Last Line: Does one move a deaf dog who bites Subject(s): Animals; Deafness; Dogs WALKING A PUPPY, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk a puppy?' the hunt enquired Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WALKING THE DOG, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two universes mosey down the street Last Line: Whereon we both with dignity walk home %and just to show who's master I write the poem Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WAR DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was only a dog, but he went to war Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use WARREN LIVE STOCK COMPANY, CHEYENNE, WYOMING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: The warren live stock company is one of the larger sheep and cattle Last Line: On his stock. Thus, one of the many traditions of the %warren live stock company lives on Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) WATCH, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: What's that ye say? That yaller dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WATCH DOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, two brave dogs Last Line: The waters, sky, and moon! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guard Duty WATER PIE; TONIGHT, 12/11/72, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the air's too dry, the vents Last Line: His warm waves of stink on the cold wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WEEDS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tina's dog got hit by a cab yesterday Last Line: What can we do but bend down %and shove our hands in it Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Neighbors; Streets WELCOME HOME, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: I saw him coming up the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHAT IS A KITTEN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: It's purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If an inaudible whistle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If an inaudible whistle Last Line: The egg broken, the nest alive, %and we heard nothing when the world changed Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians WHERE THE DOGS LIE DOWN WITH THE CATS, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: The old enmity Last Line: Where even the poet is safe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHEREVER YOU ARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thin silver whistle Last Line: To be death's best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHITE DOG, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First snow-I release her into it- Subject(s): Dogs WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Fala's ears stand straighter Last Line: Weighty problems diminished for fdr %with a lick from his dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHITE-COLLARED WORKER, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: I've seen those curs, out blazin' the herds %gettin' all roughed up Last Line: But I've worn this white one for many a year %adminstratin's what I choose to do! Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) WHO IS GOD? SO ASKED OUR DOG, by DARA WIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many seasons are there? Subject(s): Dogs; God WHY PETS RUN THE WORLD, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: Not much to say about collies Last Line: All there is is to be spared Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE (THE DOG MUSES), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why she moved house, without a word Last Line: And I but pause and pass. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moving & Movers WHY THE DOG'S NOSE IS COLD, by MARGARET (WINSHIP) EYTINGE Poem Source First Line: What makes the dog's nose always cold? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHY THEY LOVE US, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs love us uncomplainingly because Last Line: They don't have sense enought to see our flaws Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love WINDSONG RANCH, CAYUCOS, CALIFORNIA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: Some two hundred and fifty miles north of los angeles, california, on the Last Line: Serenity of this old ranch country. The dogs lie still as they listen to the silence and %sniff the Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) WINTER MIDNIGHT, by FRANCES HALL Poem Text First Line: Watchdogs bark from farm to slumbering farm Last Line: And every living thing returns to peace. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WITH REGARD TO DOGS, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the human dead may lie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WITHOUT ARE THE DOGS', by EDWARD A. CHURCH Poem Source First Line: If, through some wondrous miracle of grace Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WOLVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night while the dogs Last Line: With their hearts eat out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WOMEN AND DOG, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In bonnard's miniature oil painting, 16 x 12 inches Last Line: You can go anywhere in, that make you feel good Subject(s): Animals; Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Dogs; Paintings And Painters; Women WONDERFUL ROAD, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: He wriggles from dorothy's arms Last Line: Yellow brick road - %toto Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WORD, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: I get in between the covers as quietly as I can Last Line: The word sifts deeper into what my life is Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WORK, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old dog, work, one eye blind as if seeing Last Line: And smoke from your chimney spirals into night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WORLD IS MADE OF COOKIES, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: My dog wants them all Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WRONG WAY WILL HAUNT YOU (SHOOTING A HOUND), by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spittle beads as ice along Last Line: All cold old ballads on the grave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOKO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All today I lie in the bottom of the wardrobe Last Line: I stand with you braced against the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOU'RE A DOG, by C. L. GILMAN Poem Source First Line: At the kennel where they bred you were Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOUR DOG DIES, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It gets run over by a van Last Line: She screams again. %you wonder how long this can go on Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ZEILER RANCH, WHEATLAND, WYOMING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: The 'wanna-be's.' they're dogs, and they live on a ranch, a true ranch Last Line: Simply share their ranch with these very happy animals Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.) ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not just nothing Subject(s): Dogs ZIP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Zip, pomeranian, an oversized pet Last Line: Unless they have autos in dogland as well. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs |
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