The Daily Poem • 14 July 2025

Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

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Today’s poem is neither the first nor last to mythologize America’s sixteenth president. What is it about Lincoln that makes him so attractive to artists of every succeeding generation? Happy reading.

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