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O Captain! My Captain!

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s masterpiece of a poetry collection and is considered by many to be one of his greatest poems. This was the LibriVox Weekly Poetry Project for the week of February 19th, 2006.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia – Walt Whitman
• Wikipedia – O Captain! My Captain!
• LibriVox’s O Captain! My Captain! Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (11.6MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 – 00:02:06
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 – 00:01:57
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
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  Read by: Chip
• Version 3 – 00:01:49
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
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  Read by: Fox in the Stars
• Version 4 – 00:01:53
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  Read by: Ted McElroy
• Version 5 – 00:01:27
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  Read by: Martin Clifton
• Version 6 – 00:01:46
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  Read by: Marian Brown
• Version 7 – 00:02:23
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  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• Version 8 – 00:01:40
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  Read by: Mark Griggs
• Version 9 – 00:02:11
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  Read by: Robert Garrison
• Version 10 – 00:01:48
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  Read by: Mark Bradford
• Version 11 – 00:01:51
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  Read by: Stefan Schmelz
• Version 12 – 00:01:47
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  Read by: Scott Steven
• Version 13 – 00:01:29
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  Read by: Tracy Hall