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

Life Now-A-Days

"Life Now-A-Days." New York Saturday Press, October 18, 1859, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The poet uses a horse's galloping race as a metaphor for life: with its ups and downs, the horse is alone in the race just as man is inevitably alone with the certainty of death.