in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
This man used the word "amative" to describe the love of man for woman and the word "adhesive" to describe the love of man for man; the former type dominates his cycle of poems called "Children of Adam," while the latter dominates his "Calamus" cycle. He describes becoming "tired and sick" during the title time and later looking up "in perfect silence at the stars" in his "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," while in another poem he describes the "Flood-tide below me!" in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." FTP name this American author who included these works, as well as the massive "Song of Myself," in his ever-growing collection Leaves of Grass.
This man used the word "amative" to describe the love of man for woman and the word "adhesive" to describe the love of man for man; the former type dominates his cycle of poems called "Children of Adam," while the latter dominates his "Calamus" cycle.
Walt {Whitman}