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Famous Tarpaulin Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...he railroad track -- 
Under a cover beneath some trucks, 
I sees a feather and hears a quack; 
I stoops and I pulls the tarpaulin back -- 
Every duck in the place was there, 
No good to them was the open air. 
'Mister,' I says, 'There's your blanky ducks!'"...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...an ear.

What made the drapery glisten so?
Not a man but Delacroix.

What made the ceiling waterproof?
Landor's tarpaulin on the roof

What brushes fly and moth aside?
Irving and his plume of pride.

What hurries out the knaye and dolt?
Talma and his thunderbolt.

Why is the woman terror-struck?
Can there be mercy in that look?...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...the Golden.



My wide eyes wandered over the Aire at the

Coal barges as they snaked beneath the bridge

In black tarpaulin shrouds and clouds of steam

Hissed from Easy Road Laundry, the breaths of a

Monster, half man, half machine, the terrifying

Figures in a dream and on the Empire’s stage

I saw Doctor Wonder’s Mechanical Robot raise

An axe and chop in half his master and the two

Halves haunted me always, their fusion and

Diffusion some terrible portent to meet...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...ust to have a drop er cheer, 
Still I feels a kind ov pleasure when the campin'-ground is near; 
Still I smells the old tarpaulin me an' Jimmy useter throw 
O'er the timber-truck for shelter in the days ov long ago. 

I have been a-driftin' back'ards with the changes ov the land, 
An' if I spoke ter bullicks now they wouldn't understand, 
But when Mary wakes me sudden in the night I'll often say: 
`Come here, Spot, an' stan' up, Bally, blank an' blank an' come-eer-way.Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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