The Vault at Pfaff's

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

A London Idyll

Buchanan, Robert. "A London Idyll." New York Saturday Press, August 19, 1865, 34-35.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Narrative poem of a girl in London who is born into poverty and must struggle through life in the city. Even when she escapes the city, she is frightened by nighttime in the country and returns to London with her baby.