“You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me.”
About Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in a modest farmhouse in West Hills, on Long Island, New York, into a working-class family that embodied the restless energy and struggles of early America. He was the second of nine children born to Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer of English descent who wrestled with…