I’d like a different dog
For every kind of weather –A narrow greyhound for a fog,
A wolfhound strange and white,With a tail like a silver feather
To run with in the night,When snow is still, and winter stars are bright.
In the fall I’d like to see
In answer to my whistle,A golden spaniel look at me.
But best of all for rainA terrier, hairy as a thistle,
To trot with fine disdainBeside me down the soaked, sweet-smelling lane.
About the author:
The Book of Dog Poems, edited by Ana Sampson (Laurence King), contains 60 playful poems that celebrate the canine companions of well-known writers, including John Keats, Emily Dickinson and Margaret Atwood. The funny, charming Dogs and Weather was written by Winifred Welles (1893–1939), a less well-known American…
