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, February 12, 1859, 1.
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.