When a tragedy strikes a nation, artists often turn to their work as means of expressing grief. Such the case is the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In the days and months following Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, Walt Whitman with "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and William Cullen Bryant with "Abraham Lincoln", both offer poetic elegies for this much loved president. Although Whitman's and Bryant's tributes to Lincoln share similarities, there are many differences in the way both poets chose to honor President Lincoln.
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