The poem is worth thinking about in relation to Abraham Lincoln's mind. It also raises interesting questions about poetry itself—the art's ability to compound the meanings of words with the ...

On Feb. 20, 1862, 150 years ago, young William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, died. He was just 11 years old and the likely cause was typhoid fever.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A presidential historian has found a poem about suicide that he believes might have been penned by Abraham Lincoln. Poem about suicide may have been penned by Abraham Lincoln ...

As for Lincoln, he was a lifelong poet, from writing a cheeky verse on his math book at school (“Abraham Lincoln/his hand and pen/he will be good but/god knows When”) to a strange poem he ...

Steve Scafidi Jr.'s poem "Portraits of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling" is published in "Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present." In ...

Nearly eight years ago, Dan Guillory began writing about Abraham Lincoln's love for Ann Rutledge. Along the way, the project was transformed into a book about the only poet president.

For Presidents Day (and two days after Valentines Day), here are poems by two presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, that hit on the theme of love. Full Episode Saturday, Aug 12 ...

An Illinois presidential historian has found a poem about suicide that he believes might have been written by a 29-year-old Abraham Lincoln.

The author's latest book, eight years in preparation, is "The Lincoln Poems," which includes Guillory's poems that pay tribute to the 16th president of the United States. It was published by ...

It recorded a case in which then-lawyer Abraham Lincoln successfully defended a man on trial for murder. ... Transcript of Lincoln Inspires Poem for 16th President Feb 12, 2009 6:50 PM EST.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Poet and journalist Cynthia Zarin often writes poems inspired by news articles. In 1989, she came across a story about a handwritten transcript found in a shoebox. It recorded a case in which then ...