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Whispers of Heavenly Death

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

"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

Genre(s): Free Verse

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Darest Thou now O Soul	Alan Mapstone	00:01:50
Play 02	Whispers of Heavenly Death	Alan Mapstone	00:01:31
Play 03	Chanting the Square Deific	John Owen	00:05:20
Play 04	Of Him I Love Night and Day	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:41
Play 05	Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours	Alan Mapstone	00:01:49
Play 06	As If a Phantom Caressed Me	Scotty Smith	00:00:50
Play 07	Assurances	Scotty Smith	00:02:38
Play 08	Quicksand Years	Larry Wilson	00:00:50
Play 09	That Music Always Round Me	Larry Wilson	00:01:12
Play 10	What Ship Puzzled at Sea	Larry Wilson	00:00:37
Play 11	A Noiseless Patient Spider	Joy Fleisig	00:01:07
Play 12	O Living Always, Always Dying	Christine Rottger	00:00:59
Play 13	To One Shortly to Die	Anthony Will	00:01:17
Play 14	Night on the Prairies	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:44
Play 15	Thought	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:28
Play 16	The Last Invocation	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:11
Play 17	As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing	Alan Mapstone	00:00:47
Play 18	Pensive and Faltering	Scotty Smith	00:00:38
Play 19	A Paumanok Picture	Alan Mapstone	00:01:31

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