Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty

       Sonnet

Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye,
Like the last orphan leaf of naked tree
Which shudders in black autumn; though by thee,
Of hearing careless and untutored eye,
Not understood articulate speech of men
Nor marked the artificial mind of books,
-The mortal's voice eternized by the pen,-
Yet hast thou thought and language all unknown
To Babel's scholars; oft intensest looks,
Long scrutiny over some dark-veined stone
Dost thou bestow, learning dead mysteries
Of the world's birth-day, oft in eager tone
With quick-tailed fellows bandiest prompt replies,
Solicitudes canine, four-footed amities.

1. Song from the Waters
2. The Rosy Hour
3. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’
4. The Old Ghost
5. Song of the Stygian Naiades

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