Nathaniel Graham Shepherd (also Shepard) was born in New York City and grew up to study poetry there.
This piece, purported to be the words of the editor of Appleton's Journal, reports the circumstances surrounding N. G. Shepherd's last poem and his subsequent death.
According to the editor of Appleton's Journal "Only the Clothes That She Wore" are "tender and tragical lines [that] only just foreshadowed the death of their author." Shepherd took the lines to the magazine and "within a few hours after parting from us and receiving the price of his verses, he died from the effects of intemperance" on Saturday, May 22, 1869 (Once a Month 197).
The editor is said to have described Shepherd as "a well contributor to the magazines, and as a writer of fluent and often excellent poems, and distinguished in New York circles as a representative Bohemian" (Once a Month 197).
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Nathaniel Graham Shepherd (also Shepard) was born in New York City and grew up to study poetry there.
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