It invokes the image of a "swaying mass, their eager faces turning" that populate the crowded shores, and, earlier in that stanza, it beckons the main figure to (*) "rise up and hear the bells" because it is for him that "the flag is flung" and "the bugle trills."  
This poem's author claimed that "I am almost sorry I ever wrote that poem... if I'd written a whole volume of [them] I'd deserve to be spanked and sent to bed with the world's compliments," probably in reference to its conventional style.  It invokes the image of a "swaying mass, their eager faces turning" that populate the crowded shores, and, earlier in that stanza, it beckons the main figure to (*) "rise up and hear the bells" because it is for him that "the flag is flung" and "the bugle trills."  In its third stanza, that man is described as having "no pulse or will" and "his lips are pale and still," because, even though "our fearful trip is done" and "the prize we sought is won," he has "fallen cold and dead."  For 10 points, name this poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
This poem's author claimed that "I am almost sorry I ever wrote that poem... if I'd written a whole volume of [them] I'd deserve to be spanked and sent to bed with the world's compliments," probably in reference to its conventional style.  
"{O Captain! My Captain!}"