The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The Beautiful Snow

"The Beautiful Snow." New-York Saturday Press. (1859-2-12).
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Once "pure as an angel" like The Beautiful Snow, the speaker has lost "God, and myself...by my fall" into sin. Now a wretch "too wicked for prayer," she is "trampled as filth of the street," like the mud that remains after the snow.