Lincoln Life Sketches In Verse And Prose

Author : Ivan F. Bixby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666970909
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book With Charity for All written by Ivan F. Bixby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With Charity for All: Highlights of Abe Lincoln's Life in Verse IN the literary field Abraham Lincoln gave poetry a high priority. This interest was already apparent in boyhood when, at the age of fourteen, he wrote in his school Copybook (with some disregard for capital letters) Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen. He will be good but god knows When. Incidentally, his goodness was largely unappreciated by men of his time. Generally hated throughout the South and ridiculed by many in the North, he nevertheless carried on in the right as God gave him to see the right. During the present Civil War Centennial commemoration, we can now look back to those perilous days from our vantage point of a century and see how good Abraham Lincoln truly was. Through his leadership the Union was preserved, and the issue of slavery which threatened its destruction was abolished. As a result, our nation has advanced until it now enjoys a standard of living and a position of strength comparable to none. Apropos of Lincoln's love of poetry, in a letter to Willi Johnson dated 1846 he said of the great poem Mortality by William Knox: I would give all I am worth and go in debt to be able to write so fine a piece as I think this is. Aside from The Bear Hunt, which has twenty-two stanzas, and a few lesser known compositions, Lincoln did not write many actual poems, but the cadence and rhetoric in his speeches and writings have a poetic quality of unalloyed beauty, reflecting his very nature. In keeping with these thoughts, this book has been written as a new approach to an old subject dear to the hearts of us all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.