10 of the Best Poems about Dogs The best dog poems selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. Alexander Pope, 'I am his Highness' dog at Kew'… Oliver Goldsmith, 'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog'… Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'To Flush, My Dog'… Matthew Arnold, 'Geist's Grave'… Emily Dickinson, 'A little Dog that wags his tail'.