"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. It...
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for those we love (An American Requiem) is a 1946 oratorio by composer Paul Hindemith, based on the...
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Leaves of Grass (redirect from When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer)
elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". The first edition of Leaves of Grass was self-published...
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Whitman's imagery at the beginning of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd": April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing...
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Paul Hindemith (redirect from The Craft of Musical Composition)
Everest Records issued a recording of Hindemith's postwar When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ("A Requiem for Those We Love") on LP, conducted by Hindemith...
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Walt Whitman (category People of New York (state) in the American Civil War)
Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln. After suffering a stroke towards the end of his life,...
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O Captain! My Captain! (category Works about the American Civil War)
lifetime. Together with "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day", and "This Dust Was Once the Man", it is one of four poems...
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Abraham Lincoln (redirect from The Great Emancipator)
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to eulogize Lincoln. Lincoln's body was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield and now lies within the...
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Sirius (redirect from Brightest star in the night sky)
Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", while Tennyson's poem The Princess describes the star's scintillation: ...the fiery Sirius alters hue And...
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from the poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by the American author Walt Whitman. Dooryard Bloom has a duration of roughly 23 minutes. The music...
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Oh, Mary! (category Cultural depictions of first ladies of the United States)
cartoon more hysterical than historical". Abe Lincoln in Illinois The Last of Mrs. Lincoln The Day Lincoln Was Shot Lincoln Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln...
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American Civil War (redirect from Civil War in the United States)
gives an abbreviated overview of the most notable works. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and O Captain! My Captain! (1865) by Walt Whitman, famous...
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in 1865: "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". The poem has not attracted much individual...
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Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
To-Day". In the following months, he wrote two more: "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". Both appeared in his collection...
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prize. Walker set the 1865 poem, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", by poet Walt Whitman. Whitman wrote the poem as an elegy to President Abraham...
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Requiem (redirect from Requiem in C minor)
1916 and dedicated to "the memory of all young Artists fallen in the war"; Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for Those...
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (redirect from The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
tributes in the form of bands, bonfires, and hymn-singing.: 31–58 : 231–38 Poet Walt Whitman composed "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "O Captain...
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Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by American poet Walt Whitman in 1865...
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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
WHAT SHALL MY PERFUME BE FOR THE GRAVE OF HIM I LOVE". This is a quotation from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by American poet Walt Whitman...
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or downward— When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd… (Walt Whitman) /wɛn ˈlaɪ.læks ˌlæst ɪn ðə ˈdɔɹ.jɑɹd ˌblumd/ A pendeka (from the Greek for "fifteen")...
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Hermit thrush (category Native birds of the Northwestern United States)
symbol of the American voice, poetic and otherwise, in his elegy for Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," one of the fundamental...
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6, 1875, in Chicago to Mary and Robert Todd Lincoln. At the time of her birth, Robert Lincoln was practicing law in Chicago. She was the last of three...
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1957) The Long Christmas Dinner, in one act, on a libretto by Thornton Wilder (premiered 1961) Das Unaufhörliche (1931) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd:...
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Lincoln Highway (redirect from Lincoln Highway in the United States)
Pocatello, Idaho. When US 50 was extended to California it followed the Lincoln Highway's alternate route south of Lake Tahoe. The last major promotional...
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Der Schwanendreher (redirect from The Swan-Turner)
Moderately fast) The concerto's title, translated as "The Swan Turner", comes from the name of the last and fourth German folk song used (namely in the third movement)...
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Sic semper tyrannis (category State mottos of the United States)
It is the state motto of the U.S. state of Virginia. Before 509 BC, Rome was ruled by kings, with the last being Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. The king's...
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Lincoln" (PDF). The New York Times. 3 September 1971. Retrieved 30 April 2019. "LINCOLN ISHAM MARRIED; His Wedding to Miss Leaholma Carrea Last Saturday Just...
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Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln (redirect from Abraham Lincoln in fiction)
Captain! My Captain!" to music in one of his Four Walt Whitman Songs. Paul Hindemith set "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to music, as did Roger Sessions...
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Abraham Lincoln Memorial Monument (category Monuments and memorials to Abraham Lincoln in the United States)
and the Summit Rest Area. Russin decided when planning the sculpture that the wild temperature swings of the Wyoming plains would not provide the stable...
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