'' Sequel to Drum-Taps '' , subtitled '' When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd and other poems '' , is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman in 1865 . Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) , and the collection includes two elegiac poems , '' When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd '' and '' O Captain ! My Captain ! '' , written in response to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 . These poems were later included in '' Leaves of Grass '' , Whitman 's comprehensive collection of his poetry that was expanded throughout his life
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Sequel to Drum-Taps