I AM LOOKING FOR A POEM THAT CONTAINS THE PHRASE "OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN". I WAS TOLD IT WAS WALT WHITMAN WRITING OF A. LINCOLN. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INFO YOU COULD PROVIDE. THANK YOU AHEAD OF TIME. I needed to change email address to lower case.

-- Nancy Kohl (nkohl@oprfhs.org), April 02, 1998

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Nancy, I can't seem to find walts "Oh captain, my captain" verse but I do remember another poem by him that pertains to the civil war and Lincoln it is titled, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd You can find the poem on page 775 of the Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd edition . Hope that helps

-- David Doherty (webmaster@poem.org), April 11, 1998.

Hi. I was just cruisin' through and i saw your message here. I'm doing a paper on Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain, My Captain." It was an elegy for Abraham Lincoln, first published in the same book as "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," which is another elegy. These poems were first published in Whitman's poetry anthology, "Drum-Taps." Hope that helps. You may have found it already.

-- Scott Salyers (rustewy@erols.com), May 31, 1998.