but I am enjoying this?
This work becomes more personal in the seventh stanza when the speaker states "closer yet I approach you" and "Who knows but I am enjoying this?" That same narrator speaks of birds "oscillating their bodies" in the third and eighth stanzas and cites images of "the wolf, the snake, the dog" to illustrate evil in the sixth one. The repetition of the word "others" in the middle of the second stanza accentuates the people besides the speaker who enjoy the same experiences as he, especially the sunset and the (*) ebb-tide. A member of the "Calamus" poems, this work was first titled "Sun-Down Poem" and exclamatorily begins "Flood-tide below me / I see you face to face!" The speaker simultaneously stands still but is set in motion by the titular transport, drawing out "the similitudes of the past and those of the future". A person travels over the East River in, for 10 points, what seminal work of Walt Whitman appearing in Leaves of Grass?
This work becomes more personal in the seventh stanza when the speaker states "closer yet I approach you" and "Who knows
“{Crossing Brooklyn Ferry}”