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 ...

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 ...

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 ...