Doggerel: Poems about Dogs Book

	Foreword	13
	An Introduction to Dogs	19
	The Power of the Dog	21
	The DOG	23
	Understanding	24
	The Best Friend	25
	Argus	26
	Tray, the Exemplar	27
	Verse for a Certain Dog	28
	Your Face on the Dog's Neck	29
	Dog-God	33
	Man and Dog	35
	Growing Dark	36
	Custodian	38
	My Comforter	40
	Fidelity of the Dog	41
	To Flush, My Dog	44
	His Apologies	51
	How It Began	54
	From The Chase	55
	Drink, Puppy, Drink	58
	The Hound of Ulster	60
	Dog Days	61
	Dogs and Weather	65
	The Dog Parade	66
	Advice to a Dog Painter	67
	The Irish Greyhound	68
	Hamish: A Scots Terrier	70
	My Brindle Bull-Terrier	72
	The Dog and the Water-Lily	74
	To a Black Greyhound	76
	Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park	78
	The Dachshund	81
	The Dog of St. Bernard's	82
	To a Pomeranian Puppy Valued at 2500 Dollars	85
	My Father's Irish Setters	87
	The Properties of a Good Greyhound	90
	Barry, the St. Bernard	91
	The Hairy Dog	92
	O Pug!	93
	Compendium Dachshundium	95
	Panegyric for Gee	97
	In Praise of the Basset Hound	99
	Beagles	101
	After an Illness, Walking the Dog	105
	The Woodman's Dog	107
	Dogs in the Park	108
	My Dog is Named for Elizabeth Bishop	109
	Saturday, 8:58 a.m	110
	Walking the Dog	111
	A Dog Sleeping On My Feet	115
	Dan	117
	The Paw	118
	Dog Dreaming	121
	As She Goes	122
	Barking Does in the Snow	125
	O Happy Dogs of England	126
	The Rape of Chanticleer	127
	Theseus and Hippolyta (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)	128
	Dog at Night	130
	The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles, and the Intervention of the Great Rumpuscat	131
	A Friendly Welcome	134
	On a Spaniel Called Beau	137
	Bull-Baiting	138
	Shepheard's Dogge	139
	The Fawning Whelp	141
	Small Poem About the Hounds and the Hares	142
	Incident	143
	The Hunting of the Hare	145
	Apres la Politique, la Haine des Bourbons	149
	Launce's Dog, Crab: from The Two Gentlemen of Verona	150
	Full of the Moon	152
	Dog	153
	Pink Dog	156
	Dog Prospectus	158
	Hope	161
	Eating Poetry	162
	Two Dogs	163
	The Unruly Thoughts of the Dog Trainer's Lover	164
	Dog	166
	The Toy Bone	170
	Scroppo's Dog	172
	Lone Dog	175
	What the Dog Perhaps Hears	176
	Dog	178
	Power Source	179
	The Song of the Mischievous Dog	180
	Confession of a Glutton	183
	A Popular Personage at Home	185
	On the Collar of Tiger	187
	Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, Which I Gave to His Royal Highness	188
	Mommy	189
	Contentment	191
	Yoko	193
	The Bloodhound Speaks	196
	A Dog's Eye View	197
	The Promotion	198
	Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog	200
	Dog Kibble: A Villanelle	202
	The House Dog's Grave	203
	Oriane	205
	The Sadness of Puppies	206
	Birch	207
	Epitaph to a Dog	211
	Kaiser Dead	213
	Geist's Grave	215
	Upon His Spaniel, Tracie	219
	Epitaph on Fop	220
	Dead Dog	221
	Talking to Dogs	222
	Exemplary Nick	225
	Ruby	226
	On the Death of a Favourite Old Spaniel	228
	The Pardon	229
	Ali	231
	Lament for Toby, a French Poodle	234
	My Boyhood Dog	236
	To the Dog Belvoir	237
	Acknowledgments	239
	Index of Authors	249