| PART I |
| Puppyhood |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PAGE |
| We Meet at Morn | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley | [3] |
| The Lost Puppy | Henry Firth Wood | [5] |
| A Laugh in Church | Anonymous | [8] |
| Treasures | Anonymous | [10] |
| That There Long Dog | Alice Gill Ferguson | [11] |
| My Friend | Anonymous | [12] |
| Ted | Maxine Anna Buck | [14] |
| Little Lost Pup | Anonymous | [16] |
| My Brindle Bull-Terrier | Coletta Ryan | [18] |
| Lauth | Robert Burns | [20] |
| The Drowned Spaniel | Charles Tennyson Turner | [21] |
| PART II |
| The Human Relationship |
| Cluny | William Croswell Doane | [25] |
| The Best Friend | Meribah Abbott | [26] |
| My Dog and I | Alice J. Chester | [27] |
| My Gentleman | Anonymous | [29] |
| The Dead Boy's Portrait and His Dog | Gerald Massey | [31] |
| Advice to a Dog Painter | Jonathan Swift | [33] |
| Mercy's Reward | Sir Edwin Arnold | [34] |
| Beau and the Water Lily | William Cowper | [37] |
| Petronius | Frederic P. Ladd | [39] |
| My Dog | Joseph M. Anderson | [40] |
| Charity's Eye | William Rounseville Alger | [42] |
| To Blanco | J.G. Holland | [44] |
| The Ould Hound | Arthur Stringer | [46] |
| The Miser's Only Friend | George Crabbe | [48] |
| Poor Dog Tray | Thomas Campbell | [51] |
| My Comforter | Anonymous | [53] |
| The Little White Dog | May Ellis Nichols | [54] |
| The Irish Greyhound | Katherine Phillips | [55] |
| The Vagabonds | J.T. Trowbridge | [57] |
| In Cineam | Sir John Davies | [62] |
| Old Matthew's Dog | Anonymous | [63] |
| A Dog and a Man | Anonymous | [67] |
| Rover-Dog | Marie Louise Tompkins | [68] |
| Horse, Dog and Man | S.E. Kiser | [70] |
| The Best Dog | Anonymous | [73] |
| Cæsar, King Edward's Dog | O. Middleton | [75] |
| Just Our Dog | Anonymous | [76] |
| Ragged Rover | Leslie Clare Manchester | [78] |
| To Flush, My Dog | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | [80] |
| Frances | Richard Wightman | [86] |
| To My Setter, Scout | Frank H. Selden | [88] |
| Why Strik'st Thou Me? | Nathan Haskell Dole (Translator) | [90] |
| Consolation | Howard C. Kegley | [92] |
| Argus | Alexander Pope | [93] |
| Chained in the Yard | Anonymous | [94] |
| Why the Dog's Nose is Cold | Margaret Eytinge | [95] |
| Dog Language | Marion Hovey Briggs | [97] |
| A Dog's Loyalty | Anonymous | [98] |
| PART III |
| The Dog in Action |
| Told to the Missionary | George R. Sims | [101] |
| The Dog of the Louvre | Ralph Cecil | [106] |
| The Chase | Lord Somerville | [109] |
| The Under Dog | Anonymous | [111] |
| The Shepherd and His Dog | William Lisle Bowles | [112] |
| Beth Gelert | William Robert Spencer | [113] |
| The Flag and the Faithful | William J. Lampton | [117] |
| A Guardian at the Gate | John Clare | [118] |
| A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Caroline Bowles Southey | [119] |
| An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | Oliver Goldsmith | [126] |
| The Fusiliers' Dog | Francis Doyle | [128] |
| Fidelity | William Wordsworth | [131] |
| The Shepherd Dog of the Pyrenees | Ellen Murray | [134] |
| The Dog Under the Wagon | Anonymous | [137] |
| Sal's Towser and My Trouser | Anonymous | [139] |
| Rover in Church | James Buckham | [141] |
| PART IV |
| The Dog's Hereafter |
| Billy | Lorenzo Sears | [145] |
| The Bond | George H. Nettle | [147] |
| To a Dog | Anonymous | [148] |
| Canine Immortality | Robert Southey | [150] |
| A Friendly Welcome | Lord Byron | [152] |
| Exemplary Nick | Sydney Smith | [153] |
| The Difference | Anonymous | [154] |
| Laddie | Katherine Lee Bates | [155] |
| A Dog's Epitaph | Lord Byron | [157] |
| The Passing of a Dog | Anonymous | [159] |
| My Dog | Anonymous | [160] |
| Jack | H.P.W. | [161] |
| In Memory of "Don" | M.S.W. | [162] |
| Roderick Dhu | Helen Fitzgerald Sanders | [164] |
| Questions | William Hurrell Mallock | [166] |
| His Epitaph | William Watson | [167] |
| In Memoriam | Henry Willett | [168] |
| Questions | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [170] |
| Our Dog Jock | James Payn | [171] |
| Tory, a Puppy | Mortimer Collins | [172] |
| On an Irish Retriever | Fanny Kemble Butler | [173] |
| A Retriever's Epitaph | Robert C. Lehmann | [174] |