Title: O Captain! My Captain!
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: November 4, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: per.00076
Source: New-York Saturday Press 4 November 1865: 218. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, April Lambert, and Susan Belasco
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(From Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps.")
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1. This poem was reprinted in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865); with revision in Passage to India (1871, 1876); and finally in "Drum-Taps," Leaves of Grass (1881–82). [back]