About this book
"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 (19)
1Darest Thou now O Soul
2Whispers of Heavenly Death
3Chanting the Square Deific
4Of Him I Love Night and Day
5Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours
6As If a Phantom Caressed Me
7Assurances
8Quicksand Years
9That Music Always Round Me
10What Ship Puzzled at Sea
11A Noiseless Patient Spider
12O Living Always, Always Dying
13To One Shortly to Die
14Night on the Prairies
15Thought
16The Last Invocation
17As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing
18Pensive and Faltering
19A Paumanok Picture
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