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Famous Speculators Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...or sleepers at night in the houses? No sleepers must sleep in those
 beds;
No bargainers’ bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—Would they
 continue? 
Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing? 
Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge? 
Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow. 

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Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Make no parley—stop for no expostulation; 
Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper ...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...the town. 
Take him back to old Mahomet, and I'll tramp it through the town." 
He was cheap, very cheap, as the speculators go. 

There's a moral to this story -- in your hat you ought to paste it -- 
Be careful whom you shout for when a camel is about, 
And there's plenty human camels who, before they'll see you waste it, 
Will drink up all you pay for if you're fool enough to shout; 
If you chance to strike a camel when you're fool enough to shout, 
You'll be ch...Read more of this...

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