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Poetry reading of I Sit And Look Out by Walt Whitman. Classic poem readings uploaded at midday (UK) every day.

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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer
of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be
hid—I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and
prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look
out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

I Sit And Look Out - written by Walt Whitman
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Background music:

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String Quartet in D minor - II. Adagio - composed by Emil von Reznicek performed by Steve's Bedroom Band (CC BY 3.0)

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Author image:

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Mathew Brady [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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