• Passing the yellow-spear’d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards
  • When it is so—when thou hast taken them, I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving, floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O Death.
  • Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass, Passing the yellow-spear’d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields...
  • 1When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomd,And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning...
  • Composed in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the poem takes the form of a pastoral elegy...
  • "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln.
  • The poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd” is written after the death of Abraham Lincoln though not mentioning his name, it laments on his death.
  • Dive into Walt Whitman's poignant masterpiece, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a moving elegy reflecting on loss and the natural cycle of life...
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd” is composed of three separate yet simultaneous poems.
  • Passing the yellow-spear’d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards
  • First published in Whitman’s collection Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865) and later included in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, the poem expresses revulsion at the...
    • In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings
    • Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green
    • With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard