Did Yeats Have a Dog?

I wonder since the Irish poet wrote of trust

If he owned a dog? I look in the biographies

But there’s no mention.

I picture the old Yeats

Half awake in the bottomless night

Hand trailing under his chair,

a wolfhound looking up.

All dogs are creatures of sound,

Which is how they love us

Hearing things unseen.

So here’s to Yeats and his dog,

And the gibbous moon

Rising at the half blind window…

S.K.

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0 thoughts on “Did Yeats Have a Dog?”

love the poem, as an undergraduate on a trip in London I searched and found Yeats’ home, not because I was studying Yeats, but Sylvia Plath who also lived in the same home, there of course was a plaque for Yeats, but nothing referencing Plath, that is where she committed suicide, I don’t recall Plath having a dog either, not that it would have made a difference, but maybe, I’ve only lived one year of my life without a dog, I know it makes a difference to me

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