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

Perdita

Shepherd, N. G. "Perdita." New York Saturday Press, April 30, 1859, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker watches a woman walk beneath the glowing moon, but when the moon goes down she wastes away and dies. Her death leaves the speaker devastated.

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