The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Seven Seens in a Rowdy's History

A Disbanded Volunteer. "Seven Seens in a Rowdy's History." New-York Saturday Press, February 12, 1859, 4.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The narrator in his southern dialect describes the progression of identities that make up the life of the Rowdy, whose "bitter eend" is one without funds, friends, hope; "nix everything."