Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman



American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

O Captain! My Captain!

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Walt Whitman



In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written…

The Wound Dresser

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Walt Whitman



The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…

An Old Man's Thought of School

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…

Leaves of Grass (version 2)

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Walt Whitman



In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass.Originally publis…

A Prairie Sunset

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Prairie Sunset by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 28, 2011.Walt…

O Captain! My Captain!

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014…

Old Ireland

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Ireland by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010.

Old Chants

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Walter &…

Longings for Home

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012.Bor…

Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman



Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Miracles

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March…

A Noiseless Patient Spider

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LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by An…

Drum-Taps

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Walt Whitman



Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response …

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

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Walt Whitman



This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

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Walt Whitman



Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A…

Del canto de mí mismo

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Walt Whitman



Me celebro y me canto. Lo que me atribuyo también quiero que os lo atribuyáis, Pues cada át…

Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

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Various, Translated Byh. De Vere Stacpoole, John Donne, Sappho, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Plato, Varioustranslated Byh. De Vere Stacpoole and Varioustranslated By H. De Vere Stacpoole



Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is…

Short Poetry Collection 109

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2012.

What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand?

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry p…

Short Poetry Collection 119

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Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.

Dirge for Two Veterans

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Walt Whitman



In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Vetera…

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…

Warble for Lilac-Time

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman.

Short Poetry Collection 113

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G. K. Chesterton and Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012.

Short Poetry Collection 104

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Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2012.

Short Poetry Collection 087

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Walter de la Mare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2010.

Long I Thought that Knowledge

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Long I Thought that Knowledge by Walt Whitman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30,…

La duda terrible de las apariencias

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Walt Whitman



Pienso en la duda terrible de las apariencias, En la incertidumbre en que nos hallamos, pienso que quizá somos juguete de una ilusi&…

When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

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Walt Whitman



Whitman claimed that after years of competing for "the usual rewards", he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with …

Una hoja de hierba

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Walt Whitman



Creo que una hoja de hierba, no es menos que el día de trabajo de las estrellas, y que una hormiga es perfect…

Short Poetry Collection 090

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Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of August 2010.

Reconciliación

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Walt Whitman



¡Oh palabra, superior a todas las palabras, mágica como el firmamento! Bello es que la guerra y todas sus carnicerías se…

Short Poetry Collection 107

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Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2012.

Short Poetry Collection 111

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack London, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012.

Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

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Walt Whitman



Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse d…

Short Poetry Collection 093

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Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of December 2010.

Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

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Walt Whitman



This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

Short Poetry Collection 108

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Walt Whitman



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012.

Me celebro y me canto a mí mismo

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Walt Whitman



Me celebro y me canto a mí mismo. Y lo que yo asuma tú también habrás de asumir, Pues ca…

Short Poetry Collection 091

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Walt Whitman and Robert Frost



This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010.

Song of Myself

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Walt Whitman



Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…

Canto de la vida pública

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Walt Whitman



A pie, con el corazón ligero, huello la vía pública; Franco y salubre el mundo se dilata ante mí; …

Hush'd Be the Camps Today

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's…

Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time …

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Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman and Thomas Wyatt



The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poe…

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June …

Song of Myself, section 51

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Song of Myself, Section 51 by Walt Whitman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 20…

Whispers of Heavenly Death

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Walt Whitman



"Whispers of Heavenly Death" is a short collection of poems within Walt Whitman's major work "Leaves of Grass".In these …

Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass

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Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…

Birds of Passage from Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman



Birds of Passage is a set of seven poems which are part of Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass. The poems are full of idealism and hop…

Myself and Mine

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Myself And Mine by Walt Whitman.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 12, 2025. …