Whitman honored him with a poem called "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed."

VOA: special.2009.04.12

One of Walt Whitman's most beautiful poems in honor of Lincoln is called, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. " Here is part of that poem.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This is how the poem begins: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In a different case, a ruling last week in New York has renewed debate about who can "own" genetic information.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

President Obama promised to hold a summit on entrepreneurship in his speech to the Islamic world last June in Cairo.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Voter turnout was lower than in the last national elections in two thousand five -- sixty-two percent compared to seventy-six percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

He spent the last week in February writing what he believed to be the true position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So,President Jackson really heard his last hurrahs in the campaign of another candidate, the man would replace him in the White House.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Two studies exploring the subject were published last month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

A report about the study appeared last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

VOA: special.2009.10.13