Did you know that Walt Whitman can be celebrated in Long Island and New Jersey? Image going to Camden, east of Philadelphia and visiting the home and burial site of the man.For details, visit http://www.visitsouthjersey.com/
(click on "tours & itineraries") or call 1-877-333-2400.
Walt Whitman Birthplace. http://www.waltwhitman.org/
I have never been to Camden, but loved the house in Long Island and suggest it to any lover of poetry. Here's one of my favorite poems, enjoy!
A noiseless patient spider by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
