Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 12, 2022.
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The author was only 18 when he wrote this contemplation on death, his most famous poem. His teenage musings on nature's capacity to delight us and calm us while we live, then enfold us -- every one of us -- in its bosom for all eternity, captures a serene truth. The earth is a giant graveyard and a consummate leveler, for everybody suffers the same fate in the end. (Summary by Michele Fry) (0 hr 59 min)
Chapters
| Thanatopsis - read by APS | 5:21 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Thanatopsis - read by BK | 5:23 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Thanatopsis - read by CD | 5:22 | Read by CalmDragon |
| Thanatopsis - read by LKA | 6:31 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| Thanatopsis - read by KS | 4:54 | Read by KevinS |
| Thanatopsis - read by LCW | 4:50 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Thanatopsis - read by LS | 5:17 | Read by LeeSalter |
| Thanatopsis - read by MTF | 5:17 | Read by Michele Fry |
| Thanatopsis - read by PY | 5:32 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Thanatopsis - read by RJ | 5:12 | Read by Richa Jain |
| Thanatopsis - read by BJ | 5:22 | Read by William Allan Jones |