In a poem about this event, the speaker answers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" to the question "what shall I hang on these walls?"
In a poem about this event, the speaker answers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" to the question "what shall I hang on these walls?" Another poem tells this event's subject that "For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." A poem about this event addresses an "orb sailing the heaven" and describes a "shy and hidden bird" who sings a "carol of death"; that poem inspired by this event notes "the great (*) star early droop'd in the western sky." A poem's title character, who stands for this event's victim, is told "our fearful trip is done" before the speaker sees him fallen on the deck. For 10 points, name this murder lamented in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman.
In a poem about this event, the speaker answers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" to the question "what shall I hang on these walls?"
assassination of Abraham Lincoln [or obvious equivalents indicating the death of Abraham Lincoln; prompt on the U.S. Civil War]