The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Damned

Flash, H. L. "Damned." New-York Saturday Press, February 12, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Crazed with love for a woman "Very fair," the speaker's heart is broken when she refuses him. He murders her and is "damned," cast into an eternity of "dark, despairing pain," never to see her "soft and meek eyes" again.