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Subject: TELEGRAMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little bird sat on a telegraph wire
Last Line: We'll have to sit on the air
Subject(s): Telegraph; Telegrams


CHRISTMAS ALONG THE WIRES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Junction-station - pilot knob
Last Line: "I'll be there on number nine.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Office Work; Telegraph; Nativity, The; Telegrams


JAPAN - ABOUT 1877, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bewildered blue dragon-flies
Last Line: "hail, columbia!"
Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Music & Musicians; Printing And Printers; Telegraph; Telegrams


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE USE OF THE TELEGRAPH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the red battlefield, or populous street
Last Line: With willie's birth or lotty's last farewell.
Subject(s): Telegraph; Telegrams


SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 4. THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleeter than time, across the continent
Last Line: And time and space are naught. The mind is all.
Subject(s): Telegraph; Telephones; Telegrams


TELEGRAPH OPERATORS, by M. RAINSFORD HAINES    Poem Text                    
First Line: You sit like silent magicians
Last Line: About your quiet eyes and touched your patient glance with irony.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Telegraph; Work; Workers; Telegrams


THE DISTRICT TELEGRAPH BOY, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear the clatter of those feet
Last Line: "get a steak."
Subject(s): Beef; Food & Eating; Telegraph; Telegrams


THE HUMMING OF THE WIRES, by EDWARD AUGUSTIUS RAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the telegraph wires
Last Line: And with church-bells far away.
Subject(s): Telegraph; Telegrams


THE TELEGRAMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the hearse to the station
Last Line: God next!
Subject(s): Death; Hearses; Murder; Telegraph; Dead, The; Telegrams


THE TELEGRAPH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wires spread out far and wide
Last Line: And talk to friends in any place.
Subject(s): February; Telegraph; Telegrams


THE TELEGRAPH CABLE TO INDIA; ANTICIPATIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How all the old ways of intercourse have ceased
Last Line: Shall move the needle on the shores of ind.
Subject(s): India; Telegraph; Telegrams


THE TELEGRAPH CLERK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sitting here by my desk all day
Last Line: With a smile and then a sigh
Subject(s): Accidents;death;funerals;telegraph; "dead, The;burials;telegrams;


TO A TELEGRAPH POLE, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lanes are full of young men swallowing beer
Last Line: To ruin folk who trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Telegraph; Telegrams