To Brooklyn Bridge Quotes

Shedding white rings of tumult, building highOver the chained bay waters Liberty— (lines 3-4)

Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyesAs apparitional as sails that cross (lines 5-6)

How many dawns, chill from his rippling restThe seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him,Shedding white rings of tumult, building highOver the chained bay waters Liberty— (lines 1-4)

Some page of figures to be filed away;--Till elevators drop us from our day . . . (lines 7-8)

I think of cinemas, panoramic sleightsWith multitudes bent toward some flashing sceneNever disclosed, but hastened to again,Foretold to other eyes on the same screen; (lines 9-12)