Question

The speaker compares this person to a dove who “to his covet has fled” in a poem by George Moses Horton. In a poem about this person, the speaker states that time charges like “ceaseless clouds across the sky” after noting, “Hush’d be the camps to-day.” (10[5])While thinking about this person, (10[1])one poem’s speaker (-5[1])imagines a scene of (10[1])“the workmen homeward returning” after asking, “what shall I hang on the chamber walls?” (10[1])After (10[1])the death of this person, (10[1])the speaker (10[1])of a poem exclaims (10[1])“O heart! (10[4])heart! (10[2])heart!” (10[4])The song of a “gray-brown” (10[1])hermit (10[1])thrush (10[4])appears in a poem (10[1])whose speaker (10[1])notes that after this person’s (0[1])death, “the great star (10[1])early droop’d (10[2])in (10[1])the western (10[3])sky.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the poems “When Lilacs (10[1])Last (10[2])in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (10[1])and “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman (10[1])mourn the death of what president? ■END■

ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln (The Horton poem is “Lincoln is Dead.”)
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Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)Maryland C (DII)4510
Eric Gunter (Grad)UNC A (Grad)Virginia A (UG)4510
Jisoon YooTexas AUW A4510
Michael MaysImperial ADurham B4510
Bryanna ShaoVanderbilt AMTSU4510
Raymond WangCornell ACornell C5010
Owen AshbrookIowa BClaremont A53-5
Halle FriedmanNYU ARowan5710
Jack Rado (DII)Columbia BJohns Hopkins7110
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicTennessee7210
Andrei HuiCambridge CKCL7710
Andrew KelleyKentuckyHarding7910
Thomas HartWarwickDurham A8310
Jerry VinokurovJohn JayPenn8510
Ian DewanKielOxford A8510
Alexander ClarkeDartmouth ADartmouth B8510
Jake GreerHarvard AHarvard B8510
Rosa XiaCornell BRIT B8610
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BAlabama8610
Luke Schaarschuch (UG)Virginia C (UG)Maryland B (UG)8710
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M ATexas A&M B8710
Ethan Furman (DII)HaverfordNYU B8710
Oscar DespardCambridge ASheffield8710
Ethan StrombeckStanford ABerkeley A9210
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)UNC D (DII)9310
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley C9410
Natan HoltzmanStanford BStanford C9410
Kevin Zheng (DII)Michigan CKenyon9410
Biyang Zhang (DII)Michigan BOhio State A9410
Carlos DoebeliImperial BEdinburgh9810
Sanjay SrihalGeorgia Tech ASouth Carolina10010
Kevin ParkClaremont AIowa B1050
Sam Macchi (DII)VassarColumbia C10910
Cormac BeirneSorbonneMichigan State A11110
Ella WardeOxford BCambridge B11110
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Virginia B (UG)11210
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)Liberty C (DII)11410
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)JMU B (UG)11410
Russell NipUBC ARice A11410
Joshua Schmidt (DII)Liberty B (DII)GWU B (Grad)11510
James Stevenson (UG)Michigan AOhio State B11510
Roan DowlingIowa AAppalachian State11810
Sophie EttingerBinghamtonRIT A12210
Carly Hemani (DII)JMU A (UG)William & Mary A (UG)12310
Lewys JenkinsBristolOxford C12310
Julian MoodyTufts ATufts B12710
Aleks Kozlowski (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)UNC C (UG)13510