Notes on The Bridge -- Index

  1. Epigraph
  2. Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
    1. s. 1: "How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest"
    2. s. 2: "Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes"
    3. s. 3: "I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights"
    4. s. 4: "And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced"
  3. I. Ave Maria
    1. Epigraph: "Venient annis, saecula seris"
    2. s. 1: "Be with me, Luis de San Angel, now--"
    3. s. 2, 4, 5, 8, 10
  4. II. Powhatan's Daughter
    1. "The Dance" (s. 12 )
    2. "The Dance" (s. 26 )
    3. "Indiana" (s. 7)
  5. III. Cutty Sark
    1. Clipper Ships (Cutty Sark, Thermopylae, Flying Cloud, etc.)
    2. Leander (-> Hero and Leander legend)
  6. IV. Cape Hatteras
    1. s. 12: "What memories of vigils, bloody, by that Cape,--"
    2. s. 13: "Potomac lilies,-- then the Pontiac rose,"

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