Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, poem by Walt Whitman, published as “Sun-Down Poem” in the second edition of Leaves of Grass in 1856 and revised and retitled in later editions. It is a sensitive, detailed record of the poet’s thoughts and observations about the continuity of nature and of brotherhood while aboard a ferry between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Central to the work is the poet’s sense of oneness with the world. He considers that people a century...