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O Captain! My Captain!

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

"O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

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O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BA (Ben Adams)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BAG (elliot)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BK (Bruce Kachuk)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by DAC (Donald Cummings)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCB (Joy Baker)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCM (Jason Mills)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JK (J Korth)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JL (Jesse Liwag)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JN (Julia Niedermaier)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by KJH (KHand)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAH (Lee Ann Howlett)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAW (Laurie Anne Walden)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LLW (Leonard Wilson)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MAS (MaryAnn)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by ME (MEita)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MJ (michellejoseph)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by RC (Rosslyn Carlyle)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by WT (Winston Tharp)
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