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

Adam's Fall; or, the First Marriage

"Adam's Fall; or, the First Marriage." Saturday Press, October 23, 1858, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

All is joyous for the sinless Adam before the angels send him Eve, “a thing so false and frail,” and who leaves Adam "bankrupt" and forced to work.