Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote him a tribute called "The Master," and Herman Melville wrote one called "The Martyr," which begins: "Good Friday was the day /
His death was the subject of poems by William Cullen Bryant, Langston Hughes, and Vachel Lindsay, the second-most famous resident of his hometown.  Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote him a tribute called "The Master," and Herman Melville wrote one called "The Martyr," which begins: "Good Friday was the day / Of the prodigy and crime, / When they killed him in his pity, / When they killed him in his prime."  FTP, name this leader most famously mourned by Walt Whitman in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!"
His death was the subject of poems by William Cullen Bryant, Langston Hughes, and Vachel Lindsay, the second-most famous resident of his hometown.  
Abraham Lincoln