This author discussed how “an uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering” in the third stanza of the poem “Song of the Universal,” which opens the section “Birds of Passage.” This poet wrote, “I hear bravuras of birds” and envisions “where the hummingbird shimmers” in a poem that states, “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean.” This poet envisioned “A thousand warbling echoes” in a poem by this author that opens by describing the “musical shuttle” of a (*) mockingbird who longs for its mate. This poet wrote, “A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song” in a poem whose title objects, a star, and a bird are “twined with the chant of my soul.” A “solitary” thrush “sings by himself a song” in a poem by this author in which the “great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night.” For 10 points, name this author of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” ■END■
ANSWER: Walt Whitman [or Walter Whitman Jr.]
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