BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 12. -- This poem, written by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in her 90th year, was read by her at the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in Symphony Hall to-night ...

Using tone, gestures and inflection, students brought poetry selections to life during the Southwest Missouri Regional Competition of Poetry Out Loud. It was a competition where every single word ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow ... William Eleazar Barton. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another in ... addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” The question of exactly why, instead of the English liberty, he used the ...

Upon a wooden platform, set in a small, war-torn Pennsylvania town, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a ... Historians routinely cite the prose poem as one of the most important speeches ...