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Famous Roofing Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Roofing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous roofing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous roofing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...oul are one. 

House-building, measuring, sawing the boards; 
Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing,
Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, ferrying, flagging of side-walks by flaggers, 
The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brick-kiln, 
Coal-mines, and all that is down there,—the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs,
 what
 meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch’d faces, 
Iron-w...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...rising from a sleep,
Forehead to forehead held their monstrous horns;
And thus in thousand hugest phantasies
Made a fit roofing to this nest of woe.
Instead of thrones, hard flint they sat upon,
Couches of rugged stone, and slaty ridge
Stubborn'd with iron. All were not assembled:
Some chain'd in torture, and some wandering.
Caus, and Gyges, and Briareus,
Typhon, and Dolor, and Porphyrion,
With many more, the brawniest in assault,
Were pent in regions of laborious breath;
Dun...Read more of this...
by Keats, John
...know what I want for Christmas?

 son? A bathroom. Mommy do you know what I want

 for Christmas? What, Patricia? Some roofing material

 There were jungle hammocks in the window for distant

 relatives and dollar-ten-cent gallons of earth-brown enamel

 paint for other loved ones.

 There was also a big sign that said:



 USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE.

 MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED,



 I went inside and looked at some ship's lanterns that were

 for sale next to the door....Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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