The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The Dervish [from the Persian Redekunste]

"The Dervish [from the Persian Redekunste]." New-York Saturday Press, June 12, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Two stanza poem about a dervish and his devotion to a "Most High Lord." The speaker's faith is described through images of a "moaning" sea and a "merging" between sea and shore.