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DRUM-TAPS. FIRST, O songs, for a prelude,Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city,How she led the rest to arms—how she gave the cue,How at once with lithe limbs, unwaiting a moment, she sprang;(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis!
"Drum-Taps" is a sequence of 43 poems about the Civil War, and stands as the finest war poetry written by an American. In these poems Whitman presents, often in innovative ways, his emotional experience of the Civil War.
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Title: Drum-Taps. Date: 27 January 1866. Creator (s): F. Whitman Archive ID: anc.00058. Source: The New York Saturday Press 27 January 1866.
May 6, 2015 · A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.
May 8, 2012 · Walt Whitman's Drum-taps. Bound in original purple sand grain cloth. Blind stamped triple-rule frame on upper and lower cover. Goldstamped double-rule circular frame on upper cover and in blind on lower cover. Edges speckle-stained red.
May 13, 2011 · I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd, and I resign'd. myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead. Drum-Taps. FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city,
