Uploaded on March 29, 2012
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 rain
A terrier, hairy as a thistle,
To trot with fine disdain
Beside me down the soaked, sweet-smelling lane.
—Winifred Welles
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited by Helen Ferris
03.29.2024: I used to think that I’m a dog lover, but I’m not. I just fall deeply in love with the special dogs who come into my life.