Amazing!!! Age twelve! Oh, to be in that man's head!
Poe couplet age 12
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That is amazing. But at 12, isn't that a bit young to have such worrisome thoughts and weariness? Perhaps he had already tasted grown-up realities?
I was not so perplexed at that age.
Actually, I looked it up, and I must admit I made an error. He was fifteen at the time. I apologize I was working off of memory. Still, that is amazing! I learned that Poe's mother died when he was three from consumption. His sister and he survived mostly off of concerned peoples hand outs. He never met his father, which I will make a post of a new poem that sums this up amazingly well.
Last night by many cares and toils opressed
Weary I laid me on a couch to rest.