With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Walt Whitman wrote this dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Published in the New York City Saturday Press to immediate acclaim, O Captain! My Captain! was widely anthologized during Whitman's lifetime. Restlessly creative, Whitman was still revising O Captain! My Captain! decades after its creation. Pictured here is a corrected proof sheet of the poem, which was readied for publication in 1888.