The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The Sweet Neglect

Jonson, Ben. "The Sweet Neglect." New York Saturday Press, January 18, 1859, 4.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker declares that he would rather see the woman without her hair and make-up done and to see who she really is underneath it all.