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Subject: LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
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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 tide—for 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