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Whispers of Heavenly Death

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"Whispers of Heavenly Death" is a short collection of poems within Walt Whitman's major work "Leaves of Grass".

In these poems, written towards the end of his life, Whitman ponders on the subject of death and mortality. - Summary by Alan Mapstone (0 hr 29 min)

Chapters

Darest Thou now O Soul

1:50

Read by Alan Mapstone

Whispers of Heavenly Death

1:31

Read by Alan Mapstone

Chanting the Square Deific

5:20

Read by John Owen

Of Him I Love Night and Day

1:41

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours

1:49

Read by Alan Mapstone

As If a Phantom Caressed Me

0:50

Read by Scotty Smith

Assurances

2:38

Read by Scotty Smith

Quicksand Years

0:50

Read by Larry Wilson

That Music Always Round Me

1:12

Read by Larry Wilson

What Ship Puzzled at Sea

0:37

Read by Larry Wilson

A Noiseless Patient Spider

1:07

Read by Joy Fleisig

O Living Always, Always Dying

0:59

Read by Christine Rottger

To One Shortly to Die

1:17

Read by Anthony Will

Night on the Prairies

1:44

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

Thought

1:28

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Last Invocation

1:11

Read by Stefan Von Blon

As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing

0:47

Read by Alan Mapstone

Pensive and Faltering

0:38

Read by Scotty Smith

A Paumanok Picture

1:31

Read by Alan Mapstone