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Famous Watchdog Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Watchdog poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous watchdog poems. These examples illustrate what a famous watchdog poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Simic, Charles
...man about to be hanged cracking a joke.

 2. The Poem

It is a piece of meat
Carried by a burglar
To distract a watchdog....Read more of this...



by Schwartz, Delmore
...dandy of ontology
 and as awkward as his albatross and as

another dandy of ontology before him, another shepherd
 and watchdog of being, the one who

Talked forever of forever as if forever of having been
 and being an ancient mariner,

Hesitant forever as if forever were the albatross 

Hung round his neck by the seven seas of the seven muses,

and with as little conclusion, since being never concludes,

Studying the sibilance and the splashing of the seas and of
 seeing a...Read more of this...

by Bishop, Elizabeth
...r times my size and yet so vulnerable... I 
could open your belly with my claw. You glare and bulge, a 
watchdog near my pool; you make a loud and hollow noise. I 
do not care for such stupidity. I admire compression, lightness, 
and agility, all rare in this loose world....Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...oon 
 Wild creepers red, and gaffer sits at noon, 
 Whilst strutting fowl display their varied crests, 
 And the old watchdog slumberously rests, 
 They half-attentive to the clarion of their king, 
 Resplendent in the sunshine op'ning wing— 
 There stood a cow, with neck-bell jingling light, 
 Superb, enormous, dappled red and white— 
 Soft, gentle, patient as a hind unto its young, 
 Letting the children swarm until they hung 
 Around her, under—rustics with their...Read more of this...

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