O Captain! My Captain! Lyrics

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