Author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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- A wild-bear chace, didst never see? - Gary Bachlund (The Bear Hunt)
- Epitaph for a Kickapoo friend (Here lies poor Johnny Kongapod) - Rick Sowash
- Excerpt from President Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address (Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray) - Jennifer Higdon
- Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray - Jennifer Higdon (Excerpt from President Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address)
- Here lies poor Johnny Kongapod - Rick Sowash (Epitaph for a Kickapoo friend)
- Indiana Homecoming (My childhood’s home I see again) - Jack Hamilton Beeson
- Mortality (O why should the spirit of mortal be proud!) (from Songs of Israel) [misattributed] GER
- My childhood’s home I see again - Jack Hamilton Beeson (Indiana Homecoming)
- My childhood's home () - Andrew Hudson [x]
- O why should the spirit of mortal be proud! (from Songs of Israel) [misattributed] GER (Mortality)
- Second Inaugural () - Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman [x]
- The Bear Hunt (A wild-bear chace, didst never see?) - Gary Bachlund
- To Rosa (You are young, and I am older) - Gary Bachlund
- Vanitas (Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein!) (from Ebbe und Fluth: gesammelte lyrische Dichtungen) [misattributed]
- Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein! (from Ebbe und Fluth: gesammelte lyrische Dichtungen) [misattributed] (Vanitas)
- Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein! (Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein!) (from Ebbe und Fluth: gesammelte lyrische Dichtungen) - Gustav Jansen [not F. G. Jansen] [misattributed]
- Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein! (from Ebbe und Fluth: gesammelte lyrische Dichtungen) [misattributed] - Gustav Jansen [not F. G. Jansen] (Was soll unser Geist doch voll Hochmuth sein!)
- We all declare for liberty (We all declare for liberty) - Gary Bachlund
- We all declare for liberty - Gary Bachlund (We all declare for liberty)
- You are young, and I am older - Gary Bachlund (To Rosa)
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