This author wrote about a speaker who, "from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" in "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
This author wrote about a speaker who, "from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" in "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." His poems based on his experience as a Civil War nurse were collected in Drum- Taps. In another of his poems, the title character "has fallen cold and dead." This poet "permit[s] to speak at every hazard, nature without check with original energy." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote "O Captain! My Captain," about Abraham Lincoln's death and who included "Song of Myself" in the poetry collection Leaves of Grass.
This author wrote about a speaker who, "from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" in "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
Walter "Walt" {Whitman}