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Title: The Poets' Lincoln
Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

Author: Various

Editor: Osborn H. Oldroyd

Release Date: November 7, 2009 [EBook #30420]

Language: English

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[Illustration: (Frontispiece)

PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Photograph by Brady, 1864]

The
Poets' Lincoln

TRIBUTES IN VERSE TO THE
MARTYRED PRESIDENT

_Selected by_

OSBORN H. OLDROYD

AUTHOR OF "THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
AND EDITOR OF THE "WORDS OF LINCOLN"

_With many portraits of Lincoln,
illustrations of events
in his life, etc._

PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR AT
"THE HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED"

WASHINGTON, D. C.

1915

Copyright 1915,
by OSBORN H. OLDROYD

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Editor is most grateful to the various authors who have willingly
given their consent to the use of their respective poems in the
compilation of this volume. It has been a somewhat difficult problem,
not only to select the more appropriate productions, but also to find
the names of their authors, for in his Lincoln collection there are
many hundreds of poems which have appeared from time to time in
magazines, newspapers and other productions, some of which are
accompanied by more than one name as author of the same poem. In a
number of instances it has been difficult to ascertain the name of the
actual owner of the copyright, the poems having been printed in so
many forms without the copyright mark attached.

The Editor in particular extends his grateful acknowledgment to th