Although they are chiefly the productions of American authors, quite a number are from the pens of appreciative citizens of other countries. From the thousand of meritorious poems which have been written about Lincoln, the compiler, after serious consideration, has selected those within as appearing to be gems; although there were others which he would have been glad to include if space permitted. The poems and illustrations are arranged largely in the chronological order of their application to the events in the life of Lincoln. The intense sympathy and warm appreciation portrayed therein for our Martyred President, as well as their artistic merit assure the poems a sacred place in the heart of every patriotic American. The large number of selected portraits and illustrations of events connected with his life, service, death and burial, with brief sketches of authors of the following poems, also forms a compilation of rich material for all readers of Lincoln literature. The object in publishing this compilation is to assist in preserving the collection of memorials now contained in the house in which Lincoln died, 516 Tenth Street, Washington, D. C. The volume will be sent postpaid by the Editor at the above address, upon receipt of its price, $1.00. OSBORN H. OLDROYD. Washington, D. C., September twelve, Nineteen hundred and fifteen. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION--The Poetic Spirit of Lincoln, by Marion Mills Miller .................................................... v MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME I SEE AGAIN, by Abraham Lincoln .......... vi BUT HERE'S AN OBJECT MORE OF DREAD, by Abraham Lincoln ..... viii OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? By William Knox ..................................................... ix SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG (in verse form), by Abraham Lincoln ... xiii SOLILOQUY OF KING CLAUDIUS, by William Shakespeare ......... xvii LINCOLN, by Julia Ward Howe .................................... 14 THE GREAT OAK, by Bennett Chapple .............................. 15 LINCOLN, by Noah Davis ......................................... 17 THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN, by George W. Crofts ...................... 19 MENDELSSOHN, DARWIN, LINCOLN, by Clarence E. Carr .............. 20 THE NATAL DAY OF LINCOLN, by James Phinney Baxter .............. 22 NANCY HANKS, by Harriet Monroe ................................. 25 LINCOLN THE LABORER, by Richard Henry Stoddard ................. 29 A PEACEFUL LIFE, by James Whitcomb Riley ....................... 31 LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE, by William Wilberforce Newton ............ 32 LINCOLN, by Wilbur Hazelton Smith .............................. 35 LINCOLN IN HIS OFFICE CHAIR, by James Riley .................... 37 THE VOICE OF LINCOLN, by Elizabeth Porter Gould ................ 41