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Famous Illustrated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...
 agents for pay; 
Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves;
Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs; 
Where speculations on the Soul are encouraged; 
Where women walk in public processions in the streets, the same as the men, 
Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men; 
Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands;
Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands; 
Where the city of the healthi...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ately Museum shall teach you the infinite, solemn lessons of
 Minerals;

In another, woods, plants, Vegetation shall be illustrated—in another Animals, animal life
 and development. 

One stately house shall be the Music House; 
Others for other Arts—Learning, the Sciences, shall all be here; 
None shall be slighted—none but shall here be honor’d, help’d, exampled.

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This, this and these, America, shall be your Pyramids and Obelisks, 
Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...bushman who 
Came down from Goondiwindi, Q. 

The Evening News, 17 Dec 1904 

(This verse was published, copiously illustrated by Lionel Lindsay. Each stanza had its own illustration.) 
The pronounciation of many Australian place-names can be quite unexpected. Goondiwindi is a case in point. The town is situated on the border of Queensland and New south Wales, on the banks of the Macintyre River, and its name is pronounced "gun-da-windy", with the main st...Read more of this...

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