Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's life was short; he was evidently an undiagnosed diabetic, on whom alcohol had a terrible effect (although, as one student of his life has remarked, the sad thing is less a matter of Poe's drinking so much as of

Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49)

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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then--in my childhood, in the dawn

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January 19

Edgar Allan Poe born, 1809

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What 19th-century American poet coined the phrase "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world"?

Answer

William Ross Wallace coined the phrase in a poem of the same name ("The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the Hand That Rules the World.") Less well-known today, Wallace was a good friend of Edgar Allan Poe, and his poetry was popular in its time. Today he is largely remembered for the aforementioned phrase, if at all.

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