Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e]
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, led the Union during the Civil War and emancipated slaves in the south in 1863; shortly after the end of the war, John Wilkes Booth assassinated him. As an outspoken opponent of…
View profile & all 8 Poems / StoriesHere, where the lonely hooting owlSends forth his midnight moans,
Abraham Lincoln,His hand and pen:
Canto My childhood’s home I see again,And sadden with the view;
You are young, and I am older;You are hopeful, I am not—
A wild-bear chace, didst never see?Then hast thou lived in vain.