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Whispers of Heavenly Death

Public domain audiobook

Whispers of Heavenly Death

by Walt Whitman

English· 00:29:00· 19 chapters
"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
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Darest Thou now O Soul

    01:50
  2. Chapter 2

    Whispers of Heavenly Death

    01:31
  3. Chapter 3

    Chanting the Square Deific

    05:20
  4. Chapter 4

    Of Him I Love Night and Day

    01:41
  5. Chapter 5

    Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours

    01:49
  6. Chapter 6

    As If a Phantom Caressed Me

    00:50
  7. Chapter 7

    Assurances

    02:38
  8. Chapter 8

    Quicksand Years

    00:50
  9. Chapter 9

    That Music Always Round Me

    01:12
  10. Chapter 10

    What Ship Puzzled at Sea

    00:37
  11. Chapter 11

    A Noiseless Patient Spider

    01:07
  12. Chapter 12

    O Living Always, Always Dying

    00:59
  13. Chapter 13

    To One Shortly to Die

    01:17
  14. Chapter 14

    Night on the Prairies

    01:44
  15. Chapter 15

    Thought

    01:28
  16. Chapter 16

    The Last Invocation

    01:11
  17. Chapter 17

    As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing

    00:47
  18. Chapter 18

    Pensive and Faltering

    00:38
  19. Chapter 19

    A Paumanok Picture

    01:31