Lilacs are a beloved, old-fashioned spring flower that many people look forward to seeing in bloom each year. Their intoxicating fragrance is a welcome experience, and even one shrub can fill the ...

Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, and in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’ Lincoln ...