The Vault at Pfaff's

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

To a Trout [for the New York Saturday Press]

Barber, Joseph. "To a Trout [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, April 17, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Poem addressed to a fish Barber catches. He imparts to the fish the internal struggle he had in deciding to keep it and not throw it back.