The Vault at Pfaff's

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

So Near, and Yet So Far!

Sweat, Mrs. M. J. M. "So Near, and Yet So Far!." New York Saturday Press, March 15, 1859, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker longs for "old days" with her departed lover, but can only dream about them at night. She sends a hopeless plea to her lover to remove himself from her nights if she cannot have him during the day.