O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (1865)
O Captain! My Captain! is an elegy written to commemorate the death of President Abraham Lincoln. It was first published in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865), a collection of Whitman’s poems inspired by the events of the American Civil War. The poem is perhaps Whitman’s most famous—which is ironic, since it is far more conventional in meter, form, and subject than much of Whitman’s other work.
POEM: O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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From "American Poetry & Poetics."