O Captain! My Captain!
Author: first_name: Walt
last_name: Whitman
Language: English
Year: 1865

In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of <i>O Captain! My Captain!</i> by Walt Whitman.  This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  It appears in <i>Leaves of Grass</i>, Whitman’s masterpiece of a poetry collection and is considered by many to be one of his greatest poems.  This was the LibriVox Weekly Poetry Project for the week of February 19th, 2006.<br />(Summary by Annie Coleman)