Did you know Abraham Lincoln was a poet who wrote about suicide?

from NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
“Newly discovered poem likely Lincoln’s”
from The New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town”:
“Eureka Dept: The Suicide Poem”
Anyone who has contemplated the Gettysburg Address knows that Abraham Lincoln was a poet at heart. Now Joshua Wolf Shenk (author of The Melancholy of Abraham Lincoln) tells the story of how a presidential-poetical mystery was solved: He & other historians had long been seeking a rumored suicide poem written by Lincoln, but they were looking for its anonymous publication in the wrong year. Now “The Suicide’s Soliloquy,” published in 1838 in The Sangamo Journal has been identified as that poem.

Related articles:
“The Lonesome Death of Hart Crane,” by Janet Hamill
“Poetry and Suicide: The Tragedy of Reetika Vazirani”
“The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld”