Prose Works

A memorandum at a venture Death of abraham lincoln lecture Two letters Pieces in early youth November boughs Our eminent visitors The bible as poetry Father taylor (and oratory) The spanish element in our nationality What lurks behind shakspere's historical plays A thought on shakspere Robert burns as poet and person A word about tennyson Slang in america An indian bureau reminiscence Some diary notes at random Some war memoranda Five thousand poems The old bowery Islands—"specimen days in Preface to "democratic vistas" with other papers Abraham lincoln New orleans in 1848 Small memoranda Last of the war cases Good-bye my fancy American national literature A death-bouquet Some laggards yet Memoranda Walt whitman's last