by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
O living always, always dying
Language: English
O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever; O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;) O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them, To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "O living always, always dying" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Julia Schwartz (b. 1963), "O living always, always dying", from Whispers of Heavenly Death, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-10-09
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Word count: 70