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Work title : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FLOOD-TIDE of the river, flow on! I watch you, face to face, Clouds of the west!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

O boating on the rivers! The voyage down the Niagara, (the St.

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

11 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river

and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river

I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old, Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

9 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb- tide ebbtide !

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refreshed by the gladness of the river, and the bright

I too many and many a time crossed the river, the sun half an hour high, I watched the Twelfth Month

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river

and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river

I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old, Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

9 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb- tide ebbtide !

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