This poem shifts into italics to demarcate the song of a (*) hermit thrush, which opens: "Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world.
The speaker of this poem asks himself which pictures he should hang on the chamber walls, and he later experiences a sequence of bizarre visions before musing: "Passing the visions, passing the night." The speaker contrasts the knowledge of death with the thought of death and imagines them as companions walking beside him. This poem shifts into italics to demarcate the song of a (*) hermit thrush, which opens: "Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world." This poem closes as the speaker stands amid "the fragrant pines and the cedars dark and dim" after placing a sprig on a coffin during a funeral procession. For 10 points, identify this poem which describes how "the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night," an elegy for Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman featuring a purple flower.
The speaker of this poem asks himself which pictures he should hang on the chamber walls, and he later experiences a sequence of bizarre visions before musing: "Passing the visions, passing the night."
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"