When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd was an elegy written by Walt Whitman shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Admired as one of Whitman's greatest poems, "Lilacs" has influenced many other works in literature and the arts, most notably the poem The Waste Land (1922) by poet T. S. Eliot.
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During his wartime exile in the United States, Paul Hindemith set the text of "Lilacs" to music in his Requiem for those we love (1946). There is also a cantata by Roger Sessions setting this poem, written in 1971. David Conte extracted text from the poem for use in his "Invocation & Dance" (1989).
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