Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
Chapter 1 of 11 OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING
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- Running time
- 38 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Alan Mapstone, Algy Pug, Bruce Kachuk, Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi, J S Whitman and 4 others
Chapters
About this recording
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 memories of childhood visits to the sea shores of Paumanok, an old native American name for Long Island, and of later sea voyages.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)