Sequel to Drum-Taps, subtitled When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems, is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman in 1865. Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861-1865), and two When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and "O Captain My Captain " written in response to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. These poems were later...
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