The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Broken Hearted

K. S. "Broken Hearted." New York Saturday Press, March 15, 1859, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Gravestones and mourners "boast" the day of a person's death, participating in a "sacred lie": people die when hope dies, yet no one marks the death of hope.