Discover Walt Whitman’s remarkable life and the timeless poetry he created.

Poems in Film

Part One

There Was a Child Went Forth

 

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

 

I Hear America Singing

 

I Sing the Body Electric

 

Song of the Open Road

 

Song of Myself

 

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

 

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

 

A Glimpse

Part Two

Beat! Beat! Drums

 

A Sight In Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

 

The Wound-Dresser

 

On the Beach At Night Alone

 

O Captain! My Captain!

 

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

 

Prayer of Columbus

 

O Me! O Life!

 

Going Somewhere

 

The First Dandelion

 

Twilight

 

America

 

Goodbye My Fancy