The Vault at Pfaff's

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

My Rival - A Problem [for the Saturday Press]

Johnson, Edwin R. "My Rival - A Problem [for the Saturday Press]." New York Saturday Press, December 12, 1865, 275.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

In this poem the speaker is frustrated at another man becuase he has an intangible "something" that appeals to women, whereas the speaker is lacking this quality and desires to know what it is.