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Sample Poetry About Occupations

• The Underwear Salesman: And Other Jobs for Better or Verse (2009) by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Serge Bloch (for younger or struggling readers)
• “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
• “Block City” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The Gardener” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “A Song for Occupations” by Walt Whitman (for advanced readers)