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Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O Captain! my Captain!............................

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my captain!

Leave you not the little spot, Where on the deck my captain lies. Fallen cold and dead. O captain!

my captain!

My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

The rebel Captain then shot him—but at the same instant he shot the Captain.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all, whoever came in my way, Northern or Southern, and

Also, same Reg't., my brother, Geo. W.

Let me try to give my view.

Complete Prose Works

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

GOOD-BYE MY FANCY.

My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace.

Indeed all my ferry friends—captain Frazee the superintendent, Lindell, Hiskey, Fred Rauch, Price, Watson

my ear.

Gilchrist—friends of my soul—stanchest friends of my other soul, my poems. ONLY A NEW FERRY BOAT.

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, with bends and chutes; And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri; The

My limbs, my veins dilate; The blood of the world has fill'd me full—my theme is clear at last: —Banner

VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night, When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side that day

WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests

See, my cantabile!

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