The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Twenty Years Married

"Twenty Years Married." New-York Saturday Press, October 15, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker declares that men are simply searching for a wife to make them happy, and though, in the end, married life seems neither good nor bad, a man will still pursue that Utopian dream after his first wife has passed.