A more famous work by this author of (*) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" states that he "mourn'd" after the "the great star early droop'd," referring to the death of Abraham Lincoln.
One poem by this author instructs to play certain instruments "through the windows" and "through doors," while another addresses an Alabaman he-bird who visits Paumanok Beach as a "solitary guest." This author of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" also "sound[ed] [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" in another poem. A more famous work by this author of (*) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" states that he "mourn'd" after the "the great star early droop'd," referring to the death of Abraham Lincoln. For ten points, name this American author who included "Song of Myself" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" in his Leaves of Grass.
One poem by this author instructs to play certain instruments "through the windows" and "through doors," while another addresses an Alabaman he-bird who visits Paumanok Beach as a "solitary guest.
Walter "Walt" Whitman