Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman : The Poetry Foundation

Read O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman : The Poetry Foundation

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.

"O Captain! My Captain!" (1865) is a poem by Walt Whitman commemorating the death of Abraham Lincoln, the "Captain" who has brought the ship of state to a safe port but has "fallen cold and dead."

Walt Whitman (181901892)

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