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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!

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

like a swift running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

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

the jobbers' houses of business —the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness; After treading ground and breasting river

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Co- lumbia

Columbia flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;

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

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on the

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

The Croton Dam, originally built in 1842 on the Croton River, was the first clean water system in New

The situation is high, and overlooks the North River.

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

Through Fourteenth street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

as unfit for sea purposes—which hulks the invading British army brought round and anchored in our river

The Hudson River is named for him. in these waters, our time does not now admit.

carrying out and extension of the wharves and piers on both the New York and Brooklyn sides of the river

desired to attend the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergyman, on the Sabbath, had to cross the river

regular and full, and had many accessions from Flatbush, Gravesend, and from New Amsterdam, across the river

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

were, the majority of them, so near the Old Ferry, that water was relied upon to be obtained from the river

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

was sent over in "a small Norsey-Barque of 25 tons," to begin a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river

These fronted toward the South, and had large gardens, sloping northward down to the river, of which

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Hudson entered here and discovered the North River, Long Island, and what is now New York island.

hundred European settlers in the colony, including those on Manhattan Island, and on this side of the river

Sails of sloops bellied gracefully upon the river, with mellower light and deepened shadows.

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

In New York, closed in by rivers, pressing desperately toward the business center at its southern end

observations about the growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River

Fifth Avenue, Fourteenth Street, from river to river, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets and indeed

craned forward and tow-colored hair, stare and stumble; perhaps there is a bustle, like an eddy in a river

In some respects, this side of the river has more claims to be considered the representative first settlement

of the Dutch in the New World, than the location of our neighbors over westward of the East River.

He was partially responsible for the expansion of Brooklyn into swamplands on the East River.

far, on farms, or occasionally away in the lumber woods, or perhaps taking a trip down or up the rivers

about the same from the principal steamboat landings—Peck Slip and Piers No. 4, and thereabouts, North River

; about three quarters of a mile to the Hudson River Railroad station at Chambers Street, corner College

Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American River

THE FOUR CROSSING RIVERS.

all come together, and, as it were, fall in and deliver and transfer to each other, like four big rivers

STREETS—ARCHITECTURE OF THE LANDING—HOLT'S HOTEL, AND THE BUILDER—THE CLERKS—THE BOAT—VIEW FROM THE RIVER—CROSSING

Fulton Street, stretching from Brooklyn Heights into lower Manhattan separated by the East River, is

Who has crossed the East River and not looked with admiration on the beautiful view afforded from the

She too, has her high banks, and they show admirably from the river.

Soon, now, will come the time for big cakes of ice in the river.

much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers

up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers

You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester

It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7

The water is of the purest kind of river water.

, and to rest his limbs, allows them to float drowsily and unresistingly on the bosom of the sunny river

any doubt, when Chaos had his acquaintance cut, and the morning stars sang together, and the little rivers

For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing

the contrast between the drying up of some clear and narrow brook, and the extinction of an inland river