O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip...

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
    But O heart! heart! heart!
      O the bleeding drops of red,
        Where on the deck my Captain lies,
          Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
    Here Captain! dear father!
      This arm beneath your head;
        It is some dream that on the deck,
          You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
    Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
      But I, with mournful tread,
        Walk the deck my Captain lies,
          Fallen cold and dead.

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Arthur Olaf Anderson (1880-1958) , "O captain! My captain!", published 1925. [male chorus]
by Arthur Bergh (1882-1962) , "O captain! My captain!", op. 29, published 1938. [SATB chorus, piano]
by Jean Bohannan , "O captain! My captain!", published 1911. [TTBB chorus, piano]
by Frank Charles Butcher (1882-?) , "O captain! My captain!", op. 4, published 1910. [voice, piano]
by Walter Johannes Damrosch (1860-1950) , "An Abraham Lincoln Song", published 1934. [SSATTB chorus, baritone, piano or orchestra]
by Walter Johannes Damrosch (1860-1950) , "An Abraham Lincoln Song", published 1936. [chorus of liberated slaves, baritone, orchestra]
by Will Earhart (1871-1960) , "O captain! My captain!" [unison voices, piano]
by Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) , "O captain! My captain!", published 1918. [chorus: mixed voices, piano]
by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "O captain! My captain!", from I was there, no. 4.
by Kurt Weill (1900-1950) , "O captain! My captain!"

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