Extra Credit Questions

[STS Lincolnite]

(10-08-2014 05:58 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  This poet wrote the following words describing what was the eve of the Civil War:

"Death was in the air.
So was birth.
What was dying few could say.
What was being born none could know."

Who is the poet?

Well, it has the word death in it, so my first guess will be Emily Dickinson (even though it doesn't really sound like her stylistically).