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Low, Seth
(Encyclopedia) Low, Seth, 1850–1916, American political reformer and college president, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Columbia, 1870. He entered his father's tea and silk importing firm, but became…Burns, Ken
(Encyclopedia) Burns, Ken (Kenneth Lauren Burns), 1953–, American documentary filmmaker, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Hampshire College (1975). Acting as producer, director, and cinematographer, Burns…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 1
Part 1Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 2
Part 2The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 3
Part 3It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 4
Part 4These and all else were to me the same as they are to you, I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all near to me, Others the…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 5
Part 5What is it then between us? What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not, I too lived,…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 6
Part 6It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also, The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts as I supposed them…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 7
Part 7Closer yet I approach you, What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance, I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.Who was…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 8
Part 8Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan? River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide? The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the…Trending
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