This poem describes the "song of the bleeding throat" sung by a "hermit withdrawn to himself", telling him, "If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die".
This poem describes the "song of the bleeding throat" sung by a "hermit withdrawn to himself", telling him, "If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die". In this poem, the speaker encounters a gray-brown bird of the swamps, which impels his spirit to sing, "Come lovely and soothing death, undulate round the world". In a middle section of this poem, the speaker apostrophizes a "coffin that passes through lanes and streets" and offers to it the title object. This poem describes how "the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night", referring to an event also described in the same poet's "O Captain! My Captain!". For 10 points, name this Walt Whitman poem, an elegy for Abraham Lincoln.
This poem describes the "song of the bleeding throat" sung by a "hermit withdrawn to himself", telling him, "If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die".
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"