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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865) Matches Found: 225 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lincoln, / well, I was in the old second main Last Line: "I guess even you young folks would 'a' liked him." Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1809), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows through the chinks it's snowing too Last Line: With logs to mend the fire! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States A WELCOME TO LINCOLN'S REMAINS, by MARTHA A. PARKS Poem Text First Line: Illinois' immortal son Last Line: Resting on her breast. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History ABE LINCOLN BUILDS A COFFIN, by HAZEL HILLIS Poem Text First Line: A coffin for my mother! Last Line: No lips but mine to pray. Subject(s): Coffins; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Mothers; Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by A. S. AMES Poem Source First Line: Born in a hovel, trained in hardship's school Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham lincoln was ten feet tall Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRED CLARE BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: With humor's wand inhands to hardship used Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROSEMARY CARR BENET Poem Source First Line: Lincoln was a long man Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOEL BENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some opulent force of genius, soul, and race Variant Title(s): Another Washingto Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Source First Line: Here are a few stanzas from a poetic tribute to lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead is the roll of the drums Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARY LIVINGSTON BURDICK Poem Source First Line: Safe in fame's gallery through all they years Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No glittering chaplet brought from other lands! Last Line: From eyes that never loved a humble hearth. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His people called, and forth he came Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: From these wild hills that ring with feudal strife Last Line: In whose meek heart our great new age had birth. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by AMASA STETSON CONDON Poem Source First Line: Somewhere today in dolor and in want Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds there have been, loftier than their kind Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by P. C. CROLL Poem Source First Line: Akin to all that's noble, abreast with all that's grand Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by J. T. GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: A nation lay at rest. The mighty storm Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EUGENE J. HALL Poem Source First Line: O honored name, revered and undecaying Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JAMES NICOLL JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Bear him to his western home Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALTER MALONE Poem Source First Line: A blend of mirth and sadness, smiles and tears Variant Title(s): A Masterpiec Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANCESCA FALK MILLER Poem Source First Line: Alone? %in wilderness of lofty, virgin trees Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANK MOORE Poem Source First Line: Stand like an anvil, when 'tis beaten Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FLORENCE EVELYN PRATT Poem Source First Line: Lincoln, the woodsman, in the clearing stood Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN Poem Source First Line: Though forts are stormed and cities won Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the boundless prairie, son of the virgin soil Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic statesman, hail! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MONROE SPROWL Poem Source First Line: In cabined solitude, bedise dim fires at midnight hour Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by TOM TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You lay a wreath on murdered lincoln's bier Last Line: With much to praise, little to be forgiven. Variant Title(s): British Tribute To Lincoln;punch's Apology Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful valley reaching wide Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No adulation vain the poet brings Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: There is no name in all our country's story Last Line: He has a place alone. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as when some great captain falls Last Line: Of that paternal soul. Variant Title(s): An Horatian Ode;abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History ABRAHAM LINCOLN (2), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man whose homely face you look upon Last Line: To this dear benefactor of the race. Variant Title(s): Lincoln's Birthday;to A Portrait Of Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1863, by RICHARD REALF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It touches to the quick the spirit of one Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1865, by LEWIS V. F. RANDOLPH Poem Source First Line: What hast thou hidden, mournful night! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE FOURTH NIGHT OF INSOMNIA, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: The loud voice in the hallway. The skittish pony Last Line: I am a shipwrecked dog whose eyes reflect nothing Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT, by NORA PERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in eighteen hundred and sixty-four Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer - a pulse of thought Last Line: To memory of him -- to birth of him. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MASTER, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: We need him now - his rugged faith that held Last Line: Who willed us greater tasks, when set his sun. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN; ASSASSINATED GOOD FRIDAY, 1865, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive them, for they know not what they do!' Last Line: So let it smite, such deeds shall be no more! Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ACROSTIC: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HARTIE I. PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Let none falter who thinks he is right Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ANCIENT ABE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us up and do or die' Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by LEVI LEWIS HAGER Poem Source First Line: This day, upon the scroll of fame Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN, by ROBERTUS LOVE Poem Source First Line: Somewhar down thar round hodgeville, kaintucky Variant Title(s): The Boy From Hodgensvill Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AT LINCOLN'S GRAVE, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May one who fought in honor for the south Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Variant Title(s): Lincoln's Grav Subject(s): Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AT LINCOLN'S TOMB, by ROBERTUS LOVE Poem Source First Line: Abe lincoln? Wull, I reckon! Not a mile f'om where we be Variant Title(s): One Of Lincoln's Roommates Speak Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influence Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Commentaries; Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876); Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Nihilism; Voids AT THE GRAVE OF THOMAS LINCOLN, by BRUCE GUERNSEY Poem Source First Line: Remember that winter, my father, just a score Last Line: This prairie is our home. Care for it. I will be back Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AT THE LINCOLN TOMB, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Source First Line: This tomb, by loving hands up-piled Subject(s): Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States BABYLON, BABYLON, BAYBLON THE GREAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah, the country-boy,marched against ... Jazz Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States BALLAD OF THE LINCOLN PENNY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in old kentucky Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT Poem Source First Line: From the tints and the tones of other years Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time is it? Last Line: (he rushes off. Great confusion.) Subject(s): Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Ford's Theater, Washington, D.c.; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States CABIN WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN, by ROBERT MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Only a cabin, old and poor Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak-winged is song Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare! Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery COOL TOMBS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ELEAZAR PARMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lincoln is dead! And all the land Last Line: The other, slavery's cursed chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History DOUGLAS' COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He punished me - in fight you see Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall man lincoln looking out the windows Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Serfs ENGLAND'S SORROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hand of an assassin, glowing red Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States EPITAPH FOR LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dust was once the man Last Line: Was saved the union of these states. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FAME OF LINCOLN, by A. DALLAS WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Whereever men are civilized they know Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FATHER ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: My private shrine. The gettysburg address Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FEBRUARY 12, 1809, by GAIL BROOK BURKET Poem Source First Line: Oh, setting sun, had you no aureole? Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FEBRUARY TWELFTH, by MARY F. HEPBURN Poem Source First Line: Loyal to country and comrades and then Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught. Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej FOR SERVICES IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou of soul and sense and breath Last Line: And bless thy name forever! Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Services In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FUNERAL HYMN, by PHINEAS DENSMORE GURLEY Poem Source First Line: Rest, noble martyr! Rest in peace Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FUNERAL HYMN, by PHOEBE A. HANAFORD Poem Source First Line: Hushed today are the sounds of gladness Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars! Last Line: God save our president! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States; America GREAT OAK, by BENNETT CHAPPLE Poem Text First Line: Some men are born, while others seem to grow Last Line: When he might save a nation in its strife. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HAD LINCOLN LIVED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: With lincoln dead Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) HE LEADS US STILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dare we despair? Through all the nights and days Last Line: The nation lincoln died for cannot fail! Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HIS LIVING MONUMENT, by MINNA IRVING Poem Source First Line: Though many a year above his dust Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803) HONEST ABE' WHAT STRANGE VEXATION, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD, by GAIL BROOK BURKET Poem Source First Line: Here in this simple house his presence clings Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED, by ROBERT MACKAY Poem Source First Line: Above jedea's purple-mantled plain Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HYMN, by JR. ABNER CHENEY GOODELL Poem Source First Line: O thou who givest life Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HYMN, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Who dost the nations lead Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HYMN TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Saw you in his boyhood days Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States IF I SHOULD CARVE A LINCOLN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should carve a lincoln, I would take Last Line: Some new gibraltar, by our western sea. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States IF LINCOLN SHOULD RETURN, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: If lincoln were to come again to earth Last Line: Distress would somehow know the thing to do. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States IN HARDIN COUNTY, 1809, by LULU E. THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: With flintlock guns and polished stocks Subject(s): History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States IN MEMORIAM (ABRAHAM LINCOLN), by DEXTER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Columbia weeps! Her cherished son Last Line: Our future is alone with god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History IN MEMORIAM: A. LINCOLN, by EMILY J. BUGBEE Poem Text First Line: There'a a burden of grief on the breezes of spring Last Line: And tenderly garners the consecrate dust. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) IN MEMORIAM: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JAMES THOMPSON MCKAY Poem Source First Line: There's a burden of grief on the breezed of spring Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; U.s. - History KNUCKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In abraham lincoln's city Last Line: This is abraham lincoln's home town. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Secondhand Trade LET THERE BE LIGHT, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the beginning the eternal cause Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LIBERATOR, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: Uprisen from his fasced chair of state Variant Title(s): St. Gauden's Lincoln Statue, Chicag Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, countless wonders brought from every zone Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LIKE A TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a sturdy tree, wind crucified Last Line: He stood quite like the scarred and noble tree! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; Silence; War LINCOLN, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, rough-hewn face, that bore the furrowed signs Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) LINCOLN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the man. I see him, as he stands Last Line: Lord of himself, an inborn gentleman! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crown we our heroes with a holier wreath Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was on us; where the man? Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Whence came this man? As if on the wings Last Line: And belongs to the ages now! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound Last Line: And wrote thee down among her treasured few. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by LYDIA LANDO ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: The deeds of him who bore that name Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Last Line: Bitter for remembrance of the healing which has passed. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: New heroes rise above the toiling throng Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would I might rouse the lincoln in you all Last Line: Fire that freed the slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by RICHARD LINTHICUM Poem Source First Line: What strong, sure hand shall guide the laboring ship Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by THOMAS MACKELLAR Poem Source First Line: So deep our grief, it may be silence is Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chained by stern duty to the rock of state Last Line: Who always on earth's little ones hath smiled. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We mark the lovly place where he was born Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twas needed - the name of a martyr sublime Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by BENJAMIN S. PARKER Poem Source First Line: The voice is hushed, the heart is still Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We lift the curtain of the past to-day Last Line: The world shall echo with our lincoln's name. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A peaceful life; - just toil and rest Last Line: Of self, his peaceful life. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Brave soul, heir of sturdy mountaineers Last Line: The great american. Subject(s): Americans; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Manic-depressive lincoln, national hero! Subject(s): American Civil War; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) LINCOLN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I mused by lincoln's statue on the square Last Line: Ring out his eulogy in silver songs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Praise; Presidents, United States; Statues LINCOLN, by B. F. M. SOURS Poem Source First Line: Over snowy fields of cotton Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say - if men asked for him - he has gone home Last Line: "they have the power to will, the will to wait." Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by HENRY TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Lincoln arose! The masterful, great man Last Line: Blending of puritan and cavalier. Variant Title(s): The Masterful Great Man;lincoln's Way Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In him distilled and potent the choice essence of a race! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by RICHARD WIGHTMAN Poem Source First Line: And he was once a babe, little and like any other Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A log cabin, rude and rough Last Line: Of that dim shadowy firelit room. Subject(s): February; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN (1), by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Wise with the wisdom of ages Last Line: Deathless, he enters life. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN (2), by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: He walked among us and we passed him by Last Line: The goal of their desires, with breaking dawn. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN - THE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O simple as the rhymes that tell Last Line: The loving man he was. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN AND HIS PSALM, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Move on, ye pilgrims, to the springfield tomb Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, by MARY MATHEWS ADAMS Poem Source First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's praise Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History LINCOLN BOULDER, by LOUIS BRADFORD COUCH Poem Source First Line: O mighty boulder, wrought by god's own hand Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN CAMPAIGN SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We hear a cry increasing still Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN CENTENARY ODE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No ceremonial Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN IN BRONZE, by ROBERTUS LOVE Poem Source First Line: Here do I look upon historic form Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN LEADS, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the page of history Last Line: For lincoln leads them all. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN SLAIN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moment of his glory Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN STILL LIVES, by CHARLES MUMFORD Poem Text First Line: This mask of bronze cannot conceal his heart Last Line: O shame-faced death, you sped your shaft in vain. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lincoln is not dead Last Line: To make the world a world of friends. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN! WHEN MEN WOULD NAME A MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene. Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sacred day is this Last Line: All glorified! Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Source First Line: As back we look across the ages Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by IDA VOSE WOODBURY Poem Source First Line: Again thy birthday dawns, o man beloved Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY - 1918, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When over-burdened with its care Last Line: Mine eyes will find their way to light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell them what it was I saw Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN'S PASSING BELL, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tolling, tolling, tollint! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology LINCOLN: A RETROSPECT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the winds of peace have blown away Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN; APRIL, 1865-1915, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that on this april day Last Line: No marble white enough for thee! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind Last Line: By the light of the hard old teaching: %'we must disenthrallouselves' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MAN OF MEN, by LEONARD VAN NOPPEN Poem Source First Line: Bred in a low place, lord of little deeds Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MARTYR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, not in vain he died, not all in vain Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MARY TODD LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: So I said no, no more dramas like these with pieces of my flesh Last Line: Let me, too, be freed from myself and from this killing darkness Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Violence MARY TODD ON HER DEATHBED, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I can hear them, choking on spoons, screaming Last Line: In my handmade girlhood hoop-skirt snapping Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MEMORIES OF WHITMAN AND LINCOLN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs shall bloom for walt whitman Last Line: And lilacs for abraham lincoln. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Poetry & Poets; Presidents, United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) MEMORY OF LINCOLN AND THE YANKEES, by JAMES EPHRIAM MCGIRT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the dear old friends we people cherish Last Line: And tell them of the yankees' blessed deed. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MOTHER OF LINCOLN, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out on the lie of 'lowly born!' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States MR, LONGFELLOW AND HIS BOY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr, longfellow, henry wadsworth longfellow, the harvard professors Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) NANCY HANKS, MOTHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet girl graduate, lean as a fawn Last Line: Nancy hanks, in a lost log cabin, %nancy hanks had the loveliest face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Hanks, Nancy (1783-1818); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States NEGLECTED GRAVE OF LINCOLN'S MOTHER, by JAMES CORBIN Poem Source First Line: A wooded hill - a low-sunk grave Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States NIGHT RIDE OF ANCIENT ABE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a party cry Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare Last Line: Who perished in the cause of right. Variant Title(s): Abraham Lincoln;the Death Of Lincoln Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials OLD ABE, by GEORGE E. TOMAN Poem Text First Line: Let's go and look Last Line: Maybe we should take our hats off, eh? Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ON A BUST OF LINCOLN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a man of mighty mould Last Line: Stand as his cenotaph! Subject(s): Heroism; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day of joy, a holiday! Last Line: The treasures of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ON READING PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LETTER, by H. L. GORDON Poem Source First Line: Perish the power that, bowed to dust Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there on the low, rude, backless bench Last Line: "I thought, ""thank god, thank god the ship rides true!" Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues OUR GOOD PRESIDENT, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our sun hath gone down at the noon-day Last Line: With its great seal of blood! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States OUR HEROIC THEMES, SELS., by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pains the sharp sentence Last Line: Greatest, forgive! Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History PARRICIDE; ABRAHAM LINCOLN - APRIL 14, 1865, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the warrior gauntlet grim Last Line: From his ashes makes us freemen still. Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parricide; Presidents, United States PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reverberant music of rejoicing bells Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S GRAVE, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON Poem Source First Line: Lay his dear ashes where ye will Alternate Author Name(s): Caro Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION, by LAURA CATHERINE REDDEN SEARING Poem Source First Line: Lift up the bowed, desponding head Alternate Author Name(s): Glyndon, Howard Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States PROCLAMATION, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now who has done the greatest deed Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States RUGGED FACES, by MARY R. HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: I love the hills and mountains Last Line: A friend to all mankind. Subject(s): Character; Faces; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States SNARLERS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the mighty maccabean led the armies of the lord Last Line: While the snarlers are forgotten,-or remembered, which is worse Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States SONG OF THE EXILE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! Here I am in the land of cotton Last Line: Fight away, fight away, fight away for %dixie's land Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Independence; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; U.s. - History SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August 12th. - I see the president almost every day, as I happen to live Last Line: Of two or three centuries ago is needed Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.) SQUIRE BOWLING GREEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You missed it - case all over! Lincoln's gone Last Line: Ten dollars, I believe, and went to springfield. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States STAR OF SANGAMON, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not out of the east but the west Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States STROKE OF JUSTICE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was come, the nation's crucial hour Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE DEAR PRESIDENT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: Abraham lincoln, the dear president Last Line: "abraham lincoln, the dear president." Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal; Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History; THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies Last Line: And righteousness than wrong. Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE EYES OF LINCOLN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad eyes, that were patient and tender Last Line: From the luminous slopes of the stars. Subject(s): Eyes; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE FUNERAL DIRGE, by L. M. DAWN Poem Text First Line: All our land is draped in mourning Last Line: Rest forever, rest in peace. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now must the storied potomac Last Line: Freedom's jerusalem thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on this cast, and know the hand Last Line: The thought that bade a race be free! Subject(s): Hands; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues THE LINCOLN CABIN, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING Poem Text First Line: Behold! The timbers rough, the lintel low Last Line: He, from this dark beginning, found the way. Subject(s): Houses; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE LINCOLN HOME, by ZELLA ACKERMAN Poem Text First Line: One sunday, on july the twelfth Last Line: We know his creed lives -- others can, who will. Subject(s): Heroism; History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parks; Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines; Historians THE LINCOLN-CHILD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clearing in the forest Last Line: Work wrought through love! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE MAN FROM SANGAMON, AT GETTYSBURG, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I am a man who knew abe lincoln well Last Line: That was abe lincoln, friend of all the world. Subject(s): Gettysburg Address (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE MAN OF PEACE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What winter holiday is this? Last Line: To paradise, -- to peace. Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE MARTYR; INDICATIVE OF PASSION OF PEOPLES APRIL 15, 1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday was the day Last Line: When they bare the iron hand. Subject(s): Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Liberty THE MASTER, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flying word from here and there Last Line: And have one titan at a time. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States THE MAUL, by MARY E. NEALY Poem Text First Line: I saw a boy in a black-jack wood Last Line: Write half of its toil and glory. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out! Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers THE SECOND COMING, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Clutching their bosomed wealth, they made their cry Last Line: Grew dark with sneers. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Judgments; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE STATUE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That I might chisel a statue, line on line Last Line: Enough, enough! We know thy statue's name!' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues THE UNFINISHED WORK, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench. Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed Last Line: Will hallow their repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood THOU SHOULDST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR!, by KENYON WEST Poem Source First Line: Lincoln! 'thou shouldst be living at this hour!' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, by ROBERT MORRIS Poem Text Recitation First Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more Last Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History TO A PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EDITH COLBY BANFIELD Poem Source First Line: Thy rugged features more heroic are Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive! Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the temple of our heart Last Line: Beats in one mighty tidefor you! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: Stern be the pilot in the dreadful hour Last Line: Made by god's providence the anointed one. Variant Title(s): Sonnet In 1862 Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History TO LINCOLN'S BUST IN BRONZE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This bronze doth keep the very form and mold Last Line: Of armed strength: his pure and mighty heart. Variant Title(s): On The Life-mask Of Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Sculpture & Sculptors TO THE SPIRIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of our greatest, o look down today! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States TOLLING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States VISION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WENDELL PHILLIPS GARRISON Poem Source First Line: Dreaming, he woke, our martyr president Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States VOICE OF DESTINY, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was come, and in that hour he stood Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States WE TALKED OF LINCOLN, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: We talked of abraham lincoln in the night Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States WHEN LINCOLN CAME TO SPRINGFIELD, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States WHEN LINCOLN DIED, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: Already appomattox day Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States WIDE-AWAKE CLUB'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, hear you not the wild huzzas Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States WORDS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Continents twisted in the grip of war Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Unknown Soldier YOUNG LINCOLN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men saw no portents on that winter night Last Line: To bend the law to let his mercy out. Variant Title(s): The Coming Of Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States |
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