The Poets' Lincoln / Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

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Introduction—The Poetic Spirit of Lincoln, by Marion Mills Miller	v
My Childhood's Home I See Again, by Abraham Lincoln	vi
But Here's an Object More of Dread, by Abraham Lincoln	viii
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? By William Knox	ix
Speech at Gettysburg (in verse form), by Abraham Lincoln	xiii
Soliloquy of King Claudius, by William Shakespeare	xvii
Lincoln, by Julia Ward Howe	14
The Great Oak, by Bennett Chapple	15
Lincoln, by Noah Davis	17
The Birth of Lincoln, by George W. Crofts	19
Mendelssohn, Darwin, Lincoln, by Clarence E. Carr	20
The Natal Day of Lincoln, by James Phinney Baxter	22
Nancy Hanks, by Harriet Monroe	25
Lincoln the Laborer, by Richard Henry Stoddard	29
A Peaceful Life, by James Whitcomb Riley	31
Leader of His People, by William Wilberforce Newton	32
Lincoln, by Wilbur Hazelton Smith	35
Lincoln in His Office Chair, by James Riley	37
The Voice of Lincoln, by Elizabeth Porter Gould	41
The Thoughts of Lincoln, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	43
On the Life-mask of Abraham Lincoln, by Richard Watson Gilder	45
The Hand of Lincoln, by Edmund Clarence Stedman	47
Honest Abe of the West, by Edmund Clarence Stedman	51
Presidential Campaign, 1860, by William Henry Burleigh	53
Lincoln, 1809—February 12, 1909, by Madison Cawein	56
The Matchless Lincoln, by Isaac Bassett Choate	59
Lincoln, by Charlotte Becker	61
Lincoln at Springfield, 1861, by Anna Bache	65
Lincoln Called To the Presidency, by Henry Wilson Clendenin	70
Lincoln the Man of the People, by Edwin Markham	74
Lincoln, by John Vance Cheney	76
Lincoln's Church in Washington, by Lyman Whitney Allen	80
Sonnet in 1862, by John James Piatt	83
Lincoln, Soldier of Christ, in Macmillan's Magazine	85
A Characterization of Lincoln, by Hamilton Schuyler	87
The Emancipation Group, by John Greenleaf Whittier	91
The Liberator, by Theron Brown	94
To President Lincoln, by Edmund Ollier	96
On Freedom's Summit, by Charles G. Foltz	98top
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, by Abraham Lincoln	100
Gettysburg Ode, by Bayard Taylor	102
Lincoln's Second Inaugural, by Benjamin Franklin Taylor	104
Oh, Patient Eyes! by Herman Hagedorn	107
Abraham Lincoln, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster	109
The Man Lincoln, by Wilbur Dick Nesbit	113
The Master, by Edwin Arlington Robinson	116
Lincoln, by Harriet Monroe	119
The Eyes of Lincoln, by Walt Mason	121
He Leads Us Still, by Arthur Guiterman	123
Lincoln, by S. Weir Mitchell	125
Abraham Lincoln, by George Alfred Townsend	126
Lincoln, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar	128
Abraham Lincoln, by Alice Cary	130
Abraham Lincoln, by Rose Terry Cooke	132
Lincoln, by Frederick Lucian Hosmer	134
Abraham Lincoln, by Charles Monroe Dickinson	136
Sic Semper Tyrannis! by Robert Leighton	139
Abraham Lincoln Foully Assassinated, by Tom Taylor	140
The Deathbed	144
Lincoln and Stanton, by Marion Mills Miller	146
The House Where Lincoln Died, by Robert Mackay	151
In Token of Respect, Translation of Latin Verses	152
England's Sorrow, from London Fun	153
The Funeral Hymn of Lincoln, by Phineas Densmore Gurley	155
Rest, Rest for Him, by Harriet McEwen Kimball	157
The Funeral Car of Lincoln, by Richard Henry Stoddard	159
The Death of Lincoln, by William Cullen Bryant	161
Ode, by Henry T. Tuckerman	163
Tolling, by Lucy Larcom	164
Requiem of Lincoln, by Richard Storrs Willis	167
Requiem, by James Nicoll Johnston	168
Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, by Oliver Wendell Holmes	170
Springfield's Welcome To Lincoln, by William Allen	173
Lincoln, by Lucy Hamilton Hooper	175
Let the President Sleep, by James M. Stewart	179
The Cenotaph of Lincoln, by James Mackay	181
Dedication Poem, by James Judson Lord	183
The Grave of Lincoln, by Edna Dean Proctor	186
Commemoration Ode, by James Russell Lowell	189
An Horatian Ode, by Richard Henry Stoddard	193
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman	197
On the Assassination of Lincoln, by Henry De Garrs	200
Poetical Tribute To the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, by Emily J. Bugbee	201
Lincoln, 1865, by John Nichol	204
Lincoln, by Christopher Pearse Cranch	206
Lincoln, by George Henry Boker	208top
Abraham Lincoln, by Phoebe Cary	210
Lincoln, by Charles Graham Halpin ("Miles O'Reilly")	215
The Martyr President	219
Abraham Lincoln, by Eugene J. Hall	220
The Tomb of Lincoln, by Samuel Francis Smith	222
Lincoln, by John Townsend Trowbridge	227
Homage Due to Lincoln, by Kinahan Cornwallis	229
The Scotland Statue, by David K. Watson	231
The Unfinished Work, by Joseph Fulford Folsom	234
One of Our Presidents, by Wendell Philips Stafford	236
On a Bronze Medal of Lincoln, by Frank Dempster Sherman	239
The Glory that Slumbered in the Granite Rock, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox	241
The Lincoln Boulder, by Louis Bradford Couch	243
When Lincoln Died, by James Arthur Edgerton	247
Had Lincoln Lived, by Amos Russell Wells	250
Let His Monument Rise, by Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin	253

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