The image of a "coffin that passes through lanes and streets" appears in an elegy about this figure in which the author mourned when "the great (*) star early droop'd in the western sky at night.
In one poem, the speaker claims that this "mourning figure walks, and will not rest" as he "cannot sleep on his hillside now". The image of a "coffin that passes through lanes and streets" appears in an elegy about this figure in which the author mourned when "the great (*) star early droop'd in the western sky at night." The speaker of another poem implores this figure "to rise up and hear the bells" after he has "fallen cold and dead. "For 10 points, name this Presidential subject of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman.
In one poem, the speaker claims that this "mourning figure walks, and will not rest" as he "cannot sleep on his hillside now".
Abraham Lincoln