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I Hear America Singing
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
by Walt Whitman

Museum of the City of New York
Go to the Collections link to view fascinating artifacts, artwork, and photographs from various periods of New York's rich history. Find at least three items depicting the city of Whitman's time, and describe them in your Web Links Activity Log. Then add your thoughts about Whitman's quotation, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."

 


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