...Flood-tide below me! I watch 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...curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats, the hundreds und hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose; And you that shall...

...Broadway Pageant" and "Broadway." In "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Whitman turns his panoramic gaze to "crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!" If the city could be an infinitely entertaining spectacle despite its size and all its problems, the...

...Flood-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...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd...

...Flood-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...And more in my meditations, than you might suppose. 2. The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd...

...FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west — sun there half an hour high — / see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. 2 The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd...

...Flood-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...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd...

...Flood-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...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd...

...however, is insignificant until the speaker abandons his contemporaries to address future auditors: Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes,...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. (3-5) Now tense helps position the poem's primary actors and measures the temporal rift between them...

...the walls. Note the name posted on the tree inside the wrought-iron fence. ' THE BARDS OF BROOKLYN Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes,...and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. — WALT WHITMAN, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" At three o'clock in the morning when the rest of the city...

...however, is insignificant until the speaker abandons his contemporaries to address future auditors: Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes,...hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, arc more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are...