The narrator of this poem considers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" afterasking "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?"
The narrator of this poem considers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" afterasking "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?" Its twelfth section discusses "Ohio's shores,""flashing Missouri," and "my own Manhattan with spires." This poem ends by recalling therecurring images of "the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim." Its narrator hears the songthat the gray-brown hermit bird sings from the swamp, which he connects to a bush with"heart-shaped leaves of rich green" and a (*) star in the western sky. This poem's sixth part introducesthe "tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang," as a coffin "passes through lanes and streets" accompanied by asprig of the title flower. For 10 points, name this sixteen part free verse elegy, written on the death ofAbraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
The narrator of this poem considers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" afterasking "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?"
"When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd"