• Paul Giamatti reads "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and Charlotte Maier reads "Hymn" by A.R. Ammons. Need a transcript of this episode?
  • A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament...
  • "A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a lyric poem written by the 19th Century American poet Walt Whitman.
  • "A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a poem by Walt Whitman that explores themes of isolation, perseverance...
  • Page 343 of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, containing "A Noiseless Patient Spider," published 1891. "A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a short poem by Walt Whitman.
  • Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of December 4, 2005: A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, Book 30).
  • A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament...
  • One of Whitman’s most famous short lyrics, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” presents an extended metaphor for the cosmic connections the poet’s soul makes.
  • A Noiseless Patient Spider is a very real look into the soul of Walt Whitman, which makes it a very poignant and very powerful poem to read and analyze.