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

A Ballad

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "A Ballad." New York Saturday Press, November 19, 1859, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Poem about a fair and pious woman whose love did not truly love her. She is dead now while the man still merrily sails the seas. The speaker entreats other fair maidens not to make the same mistakes in love.

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