When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Whitman's encounter with the lilacs in bloom in his mother's yard caused the flowers to become "viscerally bound to the memory of Lincoln's death". According to Gregory Eiselein: In the weeks before Lincoln's assassination, Whitman observed the planet Venus shining brightly in the evening sky. He later wrote of the observation, "Nor earth nor sky ever knew spectacles of superber beauty than some of the nights lately here. The western star, Venus, in the earlier hours of evening, has never been so large, so clear; it seems as if it told something, as if it held rapport indulgent with humanity,
The Morning Star (New Hampshire newspaper) name that is published daily in Britain - that publication was founded in 1930 as "The Daily Worker", and only changed its name to "Morning Star" in 1966. The Morning Star (New Hampshire newspaper) The Morning Star was a weekly newspaper owned and published by Freewill Baptists in 19th-century New England, which campaigned vigorously for the abolition of slavery long before such a political stance was widely considered to be respectable in America. The first issue was published in Limerick, Maine on 11 May 1826. Seven years later the newspaper relocated to Dover, New Hampshire, and it continued to be