Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass I & II [Album]

James SchminckeUncategorized

Released 1959, 1964

Read by Ed Begley


Volume One:

Side One | Listen

  1. I Hear America Singing
  2. From Faces: The old face of the mother of many children (5)
  3. To a Locomotive in Winter
  4. A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest
  5. From The Sleepers: The sleepers are very beautiful (8)
  6. From Song of Myself
    • I celebrate myself (1)
    • A Child said What is the grass? (6)
    • Who goes there? (20)
    • I think I could turn and live with animals (32)
    • The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me (52)

Side Two | Listen

  1. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
  2. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
  3. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
  4. Good-Bye My Fancy!

Volume Two:

Side One | Listen

  1. Song of the Open Road

Side Two | Listen

  1. Song of Myself: Twenty-Eight young men (11)
  2. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
  3. O Captain! My Captain!

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