Poetry With Dogs – Page 31 – Jay Ruud

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Adonais”

Carrie Fountain’s “Prayer (Close)” & “Prayer (Stranger)”

Jericho Brown’s “As a Human Being”

José Olivarez’s “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven”

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

From John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Sharon Olds’ “Secondary Boycott Ode”

Chaucer’s “Truth,” or the “Ballade de bon conseyl”

Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care”

Lord Byron’s “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”