The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Oh, If My Love Were Dead

"Oh, If My Love Were Dead." New York Saturday Press, January 18, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
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.