"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

04/06/2021
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

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Episode Synopsis

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the President's assassination on April 14 earlier that year.