Whispers of Heavenly Death
Walt Whitman
19 chapters · 29 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, John Owen, Agnes Robert Behr, Scotty Smith, Larry Wilson, Joy Fleisig and others
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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
Chapters
1 Darest Thou now O Soul 2 min 2 Whispers of Heavenly Death 2 min 3 Chanting the Square Deific 5 min 4 Of Him I Love Night and Day 2 min 5 Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours 2 min 6 As If a Phantom Caressed Me 1 min 7 Assurances 3 min 8 Quicksand Years 1 min 9 That Music Always Round Me 1 min 10 What Ship Puzzled at Sea 1 min 11 A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 min 12 O Living Always, Always Dying 1 min 13 To One Shortly to Die 1 min 14 Night on the Prairies 2 min 15 Thought 1 min 16 The Last Invocation 1 min 17 As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing 1 min 18 Pensive and Faltering 1 min 19 A Paumanok Picture 2 min
