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    The Dog's Book Of Verse
    The Dog's Book Of Verse
    The Dog's Book Of Verse
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    The Dog's Book Of Verse

    By Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth and Robert Burns

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    The Dog is held up as man's ever relaible and loyal friend. A faithful companion who will always be by our side. In this volume our esteemed poets put their thoughts to paper and capture the appeal and character of this enduring relationship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781783945726
    The Dog's Book Of Verse
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    Alexander Pope

    Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet. Born in London to a family of Catholics who were later expelled from the city during a period of religious persecution, Pope was largely self-educated, and struggled with numerous illnesses from a young age. At 23, he wrote the discursive poem An Essay on Criticism (1711), a manifesto on the art of poetry which gained him the admiration and acclaim of influential critics and writers of his day. His most famous poem, The Rape of the Lock (1712), is a mock epic which critiques aristocratic English society while showcasing Pope’s mastery of poetic form, particularly the use of the heroic couplet. Pope produced highly acclaimed translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which transformed Homer’s ancient Greek dactylic hexameter into a contemporary rhyming English verse. His work The Dunciad (1728-1743), originally published anonymously in Dublin, is a satirical poem which lampoons English literary society and criticizes the moral and intellectual decay of British life. Second only to Shakespeare for the frequency with which he is quoted, Alexander Pope succumbed to his illnesses at the age of 56 while at the height of his fame and productivity.

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      The Dog's Book Of Verse - Alexander Pope

      The Dog's Book of Verse

      Collected by J. Earl Clauson

      "'I never barked when out of season;

      I never bit without a reason;

      I ne'er insulted weaker brother,

      Nor wronged by fraud or force another;'

      Though brutes are placed a rank below,

      Happy for man could he say so."

      PREFACE

      Matthew Arnold, explaining why those were his most popular poems which dealt with his canine pets, Geist, Kaiser, and Max, said that while comparatively few loved poetry, nearly everyone loved dogs.

      The literature of the Anglo-Saxon is rich in tributes to the dog, as becomes a race which beyond any other has understood and developed its four-footed companions. Canine heroes whose intelligence and faithfulness our prose writers have celebrated start to the memory in scores, Bill Sykes's white shadow, which

      refused to be separated from its master even by death; Rab, savagely devoted; the immortal Bob, son of battle true souls all, with hardly a villain among them for artistic contrast. Even Red Wull, the killer, we admire for his courage and lealty.

      Within these covers is a selection from a large body of dog verse. It is a selection made on the principle of human appeal. Dialect, and the poems of the earlier writers whose diction strikes oddly on our modern ears, have for the most part been omitted. The place of such classics as may be missed is filled

      by that vagrant verse which is often most truly the flower of inspiration.

      Index Of Poems

      PART I - PUPPYHOOD

      We Meet At Morn - Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

      The Lost Puppy - Henry Firth Wood            

      A Laugh In Church - Anonymous                   

      Treasures - Anonymous

      That There Long Dog - Alice Gill Ferguson        

      My Friend - Anonymous

      Ted - Maxine Anna Buck

      Little Lost Pup - Anonymous

      My Brindle Bull-Terrier - Coletta Ryan             

      Lauth - Robert Burns

      The Drowned Spaniel - Charles Tennyson Turner

      PART II - THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP

      Cluny - William Croswell Doane

      The Best Friend - Meribah Abbott           

      My Dog And I - Alice J. Cleator

      My Gentleman - Anonymous                  

      The Dead Boy's Portrait And His Dog - Gerald Massey

      Advice To A Dog Painter - Jonathan Swift

      Mercy's Reward - Sir Edwin Arnold

      Beau And The Water Lily - William Cowper

      Petronius - Frederic P. Ladd

      My Dog - Joseph M. Anderson

      Charity's Eye - William Rounseville Alger

      To Blanco - J.G. Holland

      The Ould Hound - Arthur Stringer

      The Miser's Only Friend - George Crabbe

      Poor Dog Tray - Thomas Campbell

      My Comforter - Anonymous 

      The Little White Dog - May Ellis Nichols

      The Irish Greyhound - Katherine Phillips

      The Vagabonds - J.T. Trowbridge

      In Cineam - Sir John Davies

      Old Matthew's Dog - Anonymous

      A Dog And A Man - Anonymous

      Rover-Dog - Marie Louise Tompkins

      Horse, Dog And Man - S.E. Kiser

      The Best Dog - Anonymous                 

      Cæsar, King Edward's Dog - O. Middleton

      Just Our Dog - Anonymous

      Ragged Rover - Leslie Clare Manchester

      To Flush, My Dog - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      Frances - Richard Wightman

      To My Setter, Scout - Frank H. Selden

      Why Strik'st Thou Me? - Nathan Haskell Dole

      Consolation - Howard C. Kegley

      Argus - Alexander Pope

      Chained In The Yard - Anonymous

      Why The Dog's Nose Is Cold - Margaret Eytinge

      Dog Language - Marion Hovey Briggs

      A Dog's Loyalty - Anonymous

      PART III - THE DOG IN ACTION

      Told To The Missionary - George R. Sims

      The Dog Of The Louvre - Ralph Cecil

      The Chase - Lord Somerville

      The Under Dog - Anonymous

      The Shepherd And His Dog - William Lisle Bowles

      Beth Gelert - William Robert Spencer

      The Flag And The Faithful - William J. Lampton

      A Guardian At The Gate - John Clare

      A Tale Of The Reign Of Terror - Caroline Bowles Southey

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

      The Fusiliers' Dog - Francis Doyle

      Fidelity - William Wordsworth

      The Shepherd Dog Of The Pyrenees - Ellen Murray

      The Dog Under The Wagon - Anonymous

      Sal's Towser And My Trouser - Anonymous

      Rover In Church - James Buckham

      PART IV - THE DOG'S HEREAFTER

      Billy - Lorenzo Sears

      The Bond - George H. Nettle

      To A Dog - Anonymous

      Canine Immortality - Robert Southey

      A Friendly Welcome - Lord Byron

      Exemplary Nick - Sydney Smith

      The Difference - Anonymous

      Laddie - Katherine Lee Bates

      A Dog's Epitaph - Lord Byron

      The Passing Of A Dog - Anonymous

      My Dog - Anonymous

      Jack - H.P.W.

      In Memory of Don - M.S.W.                    

      Roderick Dhu - Helen Fitzgerald Sanders

      Questions - William Hurrell Mallock

      His Epitaph - William Watson

      In Memoriam - Henry Willett

      Questions - Oliver Wendell Holmes

      Our Dog Jock - James Payn

      Tory, A Puppy - Mortimer Collins

      On An Irish Retriever - Fanny Kemble Butler

      A Retriever's Epitaph - Robert C. Lehmann

      PART I - PUPPYHOOD

      "What other nature yours than of a child

      Whose dumbness finds a voice mighty to call,

      In wordless pity, to the souls of all,

      Whose lives I turn to profit, and whose mute

      And constant friendship links the man and brute?"

      WE MEET AT MORN - HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY

      Still half in dream, upon the stair I hear

      A patter coming nearer and more near,

      And then upon my chamber door

      A gentle tapping,

      For dogs, though proud, are poor,

      And if a tail will do to give command

      Why use a hand?

      And after that a cry, half sneeze, half yapping,

      And next a scuffle on the passage floor,

      And then I know the creature lies to watch

      Until the noiseless maid will lift the latch.

      And like a spring

      That gains its power by being tightly stayed,

      The impatient thing

      Into the room

      Its whole glad heart doth fling,

      And ere the gloom

      Melts into light, and window blinds are rolled,

      I hear a bounce upon the bed,

      I feel a creeping toward me, a soft head,

      And on my face

      A tender nose, and cold

      This is the way, you know, that dogs embrace

      And on my hand, like sun-warmed rose-leaves flung,

      The least faint flicker of the warmest tongue

      And so my dog and I have met and sworn

      Fresh love and fealty for another morn.

      THE LOST PUPPY - HENRY FIRTH WOOD.

      Say! little pup,

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