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Osborn H. Oldroyd.

Washington, D. C., September twelve,

Nineteen hundred and fifteen.

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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][top]
[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][top]
[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]