Whispers of Heavenly Death

Walt Whitman

"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 (0 hr 29 min)

Chapters

Darest Thou now O Soul	1:50
Whispers of Heavenly Death	1:31
Chanting the Square Deific	5:20
Of Him I Love Night and Day	1:41
Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours	1:49
As If a Phantom Caressed Me	0:50
Assurances	2:38
Quicksand Years	0:50
That Music Always Round Me	1:12
What Ship Puzzled at Sea	0:37
A Noiseless Patient Spider	1:07
O Living Always, Always Dying	0:59
To One Shortly to Die	1:17
Night on the Prairies	1:44
Thought	1:28
The Last Invocation	1:11
As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing	0:47
Pensive and Faltering	0:38
A Paumanok Picture	1:31