The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Family

"The Family." New-York Saturday Press, August 27, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The poet uses the book as a metaphor for the family: the covers are the parents, the pages are the children, and the lock is the love that binds the family together.