LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS [Illustration] LINCOLN & Other Poems _By_ EDWIN MARKHAM _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” [Illustration] New York McCLURE, PHILLIPS & COMPANY 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1901 BY EDWIN MARKHAM FIRST IMPRESSION OCTOBER, 1901 SECOND IMPRESSION NOVEMBER, 1901 _To_ Catherine Markham THE TOUCH OF WHOSE FINE SPIRIT IS ON MANY OF THESE PAGES ❦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time. The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City. The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM. WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Contents PAGE Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream? 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58