PHILADELPHIA, March 26 -- Walt Whitman, the poet, died at 6:43 o'clock this evening at his home, 328 Mochel Street, Camden. He began to sink at 4:30, and grew gradually weaker until the end.

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's death. A few weeks later, he wrote a longer elegy, "When ...

But he never looked older or wearier than in Thomas Eakins’ 1891 portrait taken a year before the poet’s death. The celebrated ... tired even of being Walt Whitman. “There was a period ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... which often can be found in local newspaper accounts of the person's death. Using this information, students should prepare a brief biography ...