It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead" in a poem about the death of Lincoln.
This author wrote about the "mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive" in a poem which sees its narrator receive "that strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet, the sea whisper'd to me." In another poem this author wrote about "the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time," how he "look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." This author of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" meditated "It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead" in a poem about the death of Lincoln. For 10 points, name this American poet and author of Leaves of Grass, which includes his "O Captain, My Captain."
This author wrote about the "mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive" in a poem which sees its narrator receive "that strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet, the sea whisper'd to me."
Walter Whitman