The only home ever owned by American poet Walt Whitman was in Camden, NJ. Whitman spent the final two decades of his life there, where he published his famed collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The book included four poems he had written about Abraham Lincoln, including “O Captain! My Captain” and “Hush’d Be the Camps To-day.” His life as one of America’s most prominent and defining poets is memorialized with a bridge named in his honor, which connects Camden County, New Jersey with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overlooking both his still-standing former home and the Wells Fargo Center.
O Captain! My Captain!
