{"id":1966,"date":"2021-12-24T01:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenersnet.com\/?page_id=1966"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:23:51","slug":"when-lilacs-last-bloomed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenersnet.com\/lilac\/lilac09.htm","title":{"rendered":"Lilac When Last Bloomed 09"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1966\" class=\"elementor elementor-1966\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23801d02 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"23801d02\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5dfc3f76 elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"5dfc3f76\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;,&quot;animation_delay&quot;:200}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e8f171 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"8e8f171\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\n    e9 = new Object();\r\n    e9.size = \"728x90\";\r\n\/\/--><\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/tags.expo9.exponential.com\/tags\/gardenersnet\/ros\/tags.js\"><\/script>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c6848ee elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c6848ee\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c2aeea0 elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"c2aeea0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;,&quot;animation_delay&quot;:200}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b370f3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b370f3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.0 - 09-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">When Lilacs Last Bloomed<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18dbfa6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"18dbfa6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-551ea5e\" data-id=\"551ea5e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7dc38d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f7dc38d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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White Lilacs, Lilac Pictures\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1082417 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1082417\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c291046\" data-id=\"c291046\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-495c173 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"495c173\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-409b69e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"409b69e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9aed432\" data-id=\"9aed432\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-189b618 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"189b618\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.0 - 09-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p align=\"Left\">A Poem by Walt Whitman<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7537570 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7537570\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-824a940\" data-id=\"824a940\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-073c17e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"073c17e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"left\">When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed,<br \/>And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,<br \/>I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.<br \/>Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,<br \/>Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,<br \/>And thought of him I love.!<\/p><p align=\"left\">O powerful western fallen star!<br \/>O shades of night -O moody, tearful night!<br \/>O great star disappeared -O the black murk that hides the star!<br \/>O cruel hands that hold me powerless -O helpless soul of me!<br \/>O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.<\/p><p align=\"left\">In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-washed palings,<br \/>Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,<br \/>With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,<br \/>With every leaf a miracle -and from this bush in the dooryard,<br \/>With delicate-coloured blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,<br \/>A sprig with its flower I break.<\/p><p align=\"left\">In the swamp in secluded recesses,<br \/>A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.<br \/>Solitary the thrush,<br \/>The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,<br \/>Sings by himself a song.<br \/>Song of the bleeding throat,<br \/>Death&#8217;s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know<br \/>If thou wast not granted to sing thou wouldst surely die.)<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,<br \/>Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peeped from the<br \/>ground, spotting the gray debris,<br \/>Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,<br \/>Passing the yellow-speared wheat, every grain from its shroud in the<br \/>dark-brown fields uprisen,<br \/>Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,<br \/>Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,<br \/>Night and day journeys a coffin.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,<br \/>Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,<br \/>With the pomp of the inlooped flags with the cities draped in black,<br \/>With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veiled women standing,<br \/>With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,<\/p><p align=\"Left\">With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared<br \/>heads,<br \/>With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the somber faces,<br \/>With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and<br \/>solemn,<br \/>With all the mournful voices of the dirges poured around the coffin,<br \/>The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs -where amid these you journey,<br \/>With the tolling tolling bells&#8217; perpetual clang,<br \/>Here, coffin that slowly passes,<br \/>I give you my sprig of lilac.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">(Nor for you, for one alone,<br \/>Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,<br \/>For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred<br \/>death.<br \/>All over bouquets of roses,<br \/>O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,<br \/>But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,<br \/>Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,<br \/>With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,<br \/>For you and the coffins all of you O death.)<\/p><p align=\"Left\">O western orb sailing the heaven,<br \/>Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,<br \/>As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,<br \/>As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,<br \/>As you drooped from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars<br \/>all looked on,)<br \/>As we wandered together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept<br \/>me from sleep,)<br \/>As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of<br \/>woe,<br \/>As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,<br \/>As I watched where you passed and was lost in the netherward black of the night,<br \/>As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,<br \/>Concluded, dropped in the night, and was gone.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Sing on there in the swamp,<br \/>O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,<br \/>I hear, I come presently, I understand you,<br \/>But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detained me,<br \/>The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?<br \/>And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?<br \/>And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?<br \/>Sea-winds blown from east and west,<br \/>Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the<br \/>priaries meeting,<br \/>These and with these and the breath of my chant,<br \/>I&#8217;ll perfume the grave of him I love.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?<br \/>And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,<br \/>To adorn the burial-house of him I love?<br \/>Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,<br \/>With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,<br \/>With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun,<br \/>burning, expanding the air,<br \/>With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the<br \/>trees prolific,<br \/>In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple<br \/>here and there,<br \/>With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,<br \/>And the city at hand, with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,<br \/>And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward<br \/>returning.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Lo, body and soul -this land,<br \/>My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the<br \/>ships,<br \/>The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio&#8217;s shores<br \/>and flashing Missouri,<br \/>And ever the far-spreading prairies covered with grass and corn.<br \/>Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,<br \/>The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,<br \/>The gentle soft-born measureless light,<br \/>The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfilled noon,<br \/>The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,<br \/>Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,<br \/>Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,<br \/>Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.<br \/>Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,<br \/>Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.<br \/>O liquid and free and tender!<br \/>O wild and loose to my soul -O wondrous singer!<br \/>You only I hear -yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)<br \/>Yet the lilac with mastering odour holds me.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Now while I sat in the day and looked forth,<br \/>In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the<br \/>farmers preparing their crops,<br \/>In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,<br \/>In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturbed winds and the storms,)<br \/>Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of<br \/>children and women,<br \/>The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sailed,<br \/>And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labour,<br \/>And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals<br \/>and minutia of daily usages,<br \/>And the streets how their throbbings throbbed, and the cities pent -lo, then<br \/>and there,<br \/>Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,<br \/>Appeared the cloud, appeared the long black trail,<br \/>And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.<br \/>Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,<br \/>And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,<br \/>And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,<br \/>I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,<br \/>Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,<br \/>To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.<br \/>And the singer so shy to the rest received me,<br \/>The gray-brown bird I know received us comrades three,<br \/>And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.<br \/>From deep secluded recesses,<br \/>From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,<br \/>Came the carol of the bird.<br \/>And the charm of the carol rapt me<br \/>As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,<br \/>And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.<br \/>Come lovely and soothing death,<br \/>Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,<br \/>In the day, in the night, to all, to each,<br \/>Sooner or later delicate death.<br \/>Praised be the fathomless universe,<br \/>For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,<br \/>And for love, sweet love -but praise! praise! praise!<br \/>For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.<br \/>Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,<br \/>Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?<br \/>Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,<br \/>I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.<br \/>Approach strong deliveress,<br \/>When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,<br \/>Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,<br \/>Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.<br \/>From me to thee glad serenades,<br \/>Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,<br \/>And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,<br \/>And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.<br \/>The night in silence under many a star,<br \/>The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,<br \/>And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veiled death,<br \/>And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.<br \/>Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,<br \/>Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,<br \/>Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,<br \/>I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">To the tally of my soul,<br \/>Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,<br \/>With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.<br \/>Loud in the pines and cedars dim,<br \/>Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume,<br \/>And I with my comrades there in the night.<br \/>While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,<br \/>As to long panoramas of visions.<br \/>And I saw askant the armies,<br \/>I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,<br \/>Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles I saw them,<br \/>And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,<br \/>And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)<br \/>And the staffs all splintered and broken.<br \/>I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,<br \/>And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,<br \/>I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,<br \/>But I saw they were not as was thought,<br \/>They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not,<br \/>The living remained and suffered, the mother suffered,<br \/>And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffered,<br \/>And the armies that remained suffered.<\/p><p align=\"Left\">Passing the visions, passing the night,<br \/>Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades&#8217; hands,<br \/>Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,<br \/>Victorious song, death&#8217;s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,<br \/>As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,<br \/>Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting<br \/>with joy,<br \/>Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,<br \/>As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,<br \/>Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,<br \/>I leave thee there in the dooryard, blooming, returning with spring.<br \/>I cease from my song for thee,<br \/>From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,<br \/>O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.<br \/>Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,<br \/>The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird,<br \/>And the tallying chant, the echo aroused in my soul,<br \/>With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,<br \/>With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,<br \/>Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead<br \/>I loved so well,<br \/>For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands -and this for his dear<br \/>sake,<br \/>Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,<br \/>There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-91ab2fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"91ab2fe\" 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