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Famous Telegraphs Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...rth America;
I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe; 
I see them in Asia and in Africa. 

I see the electric telegraphs of the earth; 
I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.


I see the long river-stripes of the earth;
I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Columbia flows; 
I see the Great River and the Falls of Niagara; 
I see the Amazon and the Paraguay; 
I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...attel slave
Had crowned the dominant dollar,
In spite of Whitney's cotton gin,
And steam and rolling mills and iron
And telegraphs and white free labor?
Do you think that Daisy Fraser
Had been put out and driven out
If the canning works had never needed
Her little house and lot?
Or do you think the poker room
Of Johnnie Taylor, and Burchard's bar
Had been closed up if the money lost
And spent for beer had not been turned,
By closing them, to Thomas Rhodes
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by Masters, Edgar Lee

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