The Vault at Pfaff's
Winter, William. "Louise [from 'The Queen's Domain and other Poems']." New-York Saturday Press, February 25, 1860, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract
The speaker's lover, "poor Louise," has lived a life of pain and is now passed away "At sunset of an August day." Characterized as beautiful, graceful, gentle, "Pensive and mild," she carried a "secret grief...beyond relief." Her suffering is in her smile, a "ghastly, wild...beauteous curve of pain."