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A Noiseless Patient Spider

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Gutenberg e-text #1322
• Wikipedia – Walt Whitman
• LibriVox’s A Noiseless Patient Spider Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (5.5MB)
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• Version 1 – 00:01:35
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 – 00:01:13
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• Version 3 – 00:01:34
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Gord MacKenzie
• Version 4 – 00:01:30
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 5 – 00:01:52
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Osmia
• Version 6 – 00:01:29
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• Version 7 – 00:01:12
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Squiddhartha
• Version 8 – 00:00:52
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  [mp3@128kbps - 835.6kB]
  [ogg vorbis - 708.2kB]
  Read by: wedschild