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Poetry by Walt Whitman | HearLore
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Poetry by Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!Walt Whitman moved to Washington, D.C. at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He held government jobs with the Army Paymaster's Office and later the…
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dWalt Whitman stood in the yard of his mother's home on the 14th of April 1865 when he heard that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot.