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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 ....................... 98
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 ................................ 208
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