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