"His Grave [for the Saturday Press]." New York Saturday Press, December 12, 1865, 277.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract
Personification of wind, language of possession, and images of sound's suppression characterize the speaker's sorrow over the death of a lover. His gravestone is an object of eternity where the "mournful wind" "Lovingly lingers" and "Love lies unchanged forever around his sacred name."