Notes on The Bridge -- Index
- Epigraph
- Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
- s. 1: "How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest"
- s. 2: "Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes"
- s. 3: "I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights"
- s. 4: "And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced"
- I. Ave Maria
- Epigraph: "Venient annis, saecula seris"
- s. 1: "Be with me, Luis de San Angel, now--"
- s. 2, 4, 5, 8, 10
- II. Powhatan's Daughter
- "The Dance" (s. 12 )
- "The Dance" (s. 26 )
- "Indiana" (s. 7)
- III. Cutty Sark
- Clipper Ships (Cutty Sark, Thermopylae, Flying Cloud, etc.)
- Leander (-> Hero and Leander legend)
- IV. Cape Hatteras
- s. 12: "What memories of vigils, bloody, by that Cape,--"
- s. 13: "Potomac lilies,-- then the Pontiac rose,"
Last updated: 13 November, 1996
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