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Oh, If My Love Were Dead

"Oh, If My Love Were Dead." New York Saturday Press. 18 Jan. 1859: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The narrator's love has married another man. Because he cannot be with her in person, he wishes instead that she were dead so he could create a "pure" shrine to her in his heart. He knows he will be married to his love in spirit forever.