Hart Crane – « To Brooklyn bridge »: extrait & prolongements

Hart Crane (1889-1932), « To Brooklyn Bridge », The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane, edited with an introduction and notes by Brom Weber (1933), 1966. How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over the chained…

Walt Whitman – « Crossing Brooklyn ferry », Leaves of grass

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), « Crossing Brooklyn ferry », Leaves of grass, (publié en 1856 sous le titre de « Sun-down poem ») 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 in the usual…