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    The Poetry Of Dogs
    The Poetry Of Dogs
    The Poetry Of Dogs
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    The Poetry Of Dogs

    By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 17, 2014
    ISBN9781783948079

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      Book preview

      The Poetry Of Dogs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      THE POETRY OF DOGS

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

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

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

      Index Of Poems

      The Train Dogs - Emily Pauline Johnson

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

      To My Spaniel Fanny - Thomas Gent

      Two Spaniels -  Richard Cobbold

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

      Power Of The Dog – Rudyard Kipling

      Argus – Alexander Pope

      To Flush, My Dog – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      His Apologies – Rudyard Kipling

      Advice To A Dog Painter – Jonathan Swift

      Lauth – Robert Burns

      The Best Friend – Meribah Abbott

      Beau And The Water Lily – William Cowper

      Poor Dog Tray – Thomas Campbell

      The Irish Greyhound – Katherine Phillips

      The Shepherd And His Dog – William Lisle Bowles

      Beth Gelert – William Robert Spencer

      A Guardian At The Gate – John Clare

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

      The Fusiliers’ Dog – Francis Doyle

      Fidelity – William Wordsworth

      A Friendly Welcome – Lord Byron

      Exemplary Nick – Sydney Smith

      Canine Immortality – Robert Southey

      In Memoriam – Henry Willett

      Questions – Oliver Wendell Holmes

      To A Black Greyhound – Julian Grenfell

      The Great Saint Bernard - Samuel Rogers

      Geist’s Grave - Matthew Arnold

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

      Dogs and Weather - Winifred Welles

      The Song of Quoodle - G.K. Chesterton

      Old Dog Tray - Stephen Foster

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

      The Twa Dogs - Robert Burns

      I Started Early – Took My Dog – Emily Dickinson

      Fool's Money Bags  - Amy Lowell

      A little Dog That Wags His Tail - Emily Dickinson

      The Lost Puppy – Henry Firth Wood

      My Brindle Bull Terrier – Coletta Ryan

      Cluny – William Croswell Doane

      My Dog – Joseph M Anderson

      Charity’s Eye – William Rounseville Alger

      The Vagabonds – JT Trowbridge

      The Little White Dog – May Ellis Nichols

      Kaiser Dead – Matthew Arnold

      Upon His Spaniel Tracy – Robert Herrick

      Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog – William Wordsworth

      The Train Dogs - Emily Pauline Johnson

      Out of the night and the north; 

      Savage of breed and of bone, 

      Shaggy and swift comes the yelping band, 

      Freighters of fur from the voiceless land 

      That sleeps in the Arctic zone. 

      Laden with skins from the north,

      Beaver and bear and raccoon, 

      Marten and mink from the polar belts, 

      Otter and ermine and sable pelts 

      The spoils of the hunter's moon. 

      Out of the night and the north, 

      Sinewy, fearless and fleet, 

      Urging the pack through the pathless snow, 

      The Indian driver, calling low, 

      Follows with moccasined feet. 

      Ships of the night and the north, 

      Freighters on prairies and plains, 

      Carrying cargoes from field and flood 

      They scent the trail through their wild red blood, 

      The wolfish blood in their veins. 

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

      A spaniel, Beau, that fares like you,

      Well fed, and at his ease,

      Should wiser be than to pursue

      Each trifle that he sees.

      But you have killed a tiny bird,

      Which flew not till to-day,

      Against my orders, whom you heard

      Forbidding you the prey.

      Nor

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