The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Adrift [for the New York Saturday Press]

Sybelle. "Adrift [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, March 17, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

A woman watches from the side of a ship as her husband's dead body floats in the stormy sea, which the poet uses as a metaphor for the separation of life and death.