Walt Whitman: 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'

The final 1891 revision of Walt Whitman's 1856 poem 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', read by Will Geer, recorded in 1957.

Video thumbnail: "Walt Whitman with 'Kitty' (Katharine Devereux) and 'Harry' (Harold Hugh) Johnston, children of John H. and Amelia F. Johnston", taken July 1878. The Johnstons were friends of Whitman, Amelia tragically dying following her son's birth in 1877.

[yearoldnewdriver]

I was born in Brooklyn, and I like this poem! I think of my childhood in my native Brooklyn