The narrator of one poem by this author has "heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and end" and discusses the "procreant urge of the world."
The narrator of one poem by this author has "heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and end" and discusses the "procreant urge of the world." Another work by this poet ends "Great or small, you furnish your parts towards the soul." That poem begins "Flood tide below me! I watch you face to face." The narrator of this man's most famous poem sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world," and begins "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." For 10 points, name this American free-verse poet who included "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Song of Myself" in his Leaves of Grass.  
The narrator of one poem by this author has "heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and end" and discusses the "procreant urge of the world."
Walt Whitman