In The Bird and the Bell, Christopher Pearse Cranch wrote a seven-sonnet sequence about this event, while George Moses Horton described it in the line "The dove to his covet has fled" and claims it happened "triumphantly."  Herman Melville wrote "Beware the people weeping/ When they bare the iron hand" about it, and Henry Longfellow described it happening "as we rode along/ Down the dark of the mountain gap/ To visit the picket-guard at the (*) ford." Another poet reflects upon it "with ever-ret
In The Bird and the Bell, Christopher Pearse Cranch wrote a seven-sonnet sequence about this event, while George Moses Horton described it in the line "The dove to his covet has fled" and claims it happened "triumphantly."  Herman Melville wrote "Beware the people weeping/ When they bare the iron hand" about it, and Henry Longfellow described it happening "as we rode along/ Down the dark of the mountain gap/ To visit the picket-guard at the (*) ford." Another poet reflects upon it "with ever-returning spring" when "the great star droop'd in the west," noting in another of the four poems remembering it that though "our fearful trip is done" a certain man is "Fallen cold and dead." For 10 points, name this event lamented in Walt Whitman's "O Captain My Captain."
In The Bird and the Bell, Christopher Pearse Cranch wrote a seven-sonnet sequence about this event, while George Moses Horton described it in the line "The dove to his covet has fled" and claims it happened "triumphantly."  
the {assassination} of Abraham {Lincoln} [accept “{death} of {Lincoln}” or other reasonable equivalents]