Edgar Allen Poe

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common spring.
From the same source I have not taken.
My sorrow I could not awaken.
My heart to joy at the same to me.
And all I loved, I loved alone (Regan, Robert Pg. 56)
For the first time ever, Poe fell in love. Her name was Jane Stanard, she was the mother of his friend Robert. Anytime he was having trouble at home, he would find her sympathy and comfort. Unfortunately Jane died at twenty-eight. Poe suffered yet another loss. Perhaps the only mother Poe would ever know personally, died. Soon after Jane’s death, Poe wrote a poem for Jane. He changed the name to Helen for unknown reasons.
Helen-
Thy beauty is to me like those of Nicean barks of yore,
that gently oe’r a perfumed sea,
the weary way -worn wonderer bore to his own native shore.

In 1825, the year after Jane’s death, Poe fell in love with and became secretly engaged to Elmyra Royster, the fifteen year old daughter of his neighbor. Elmira’s father would not permit her to marry Edgar because he believed that the two were too young. Thus they were not we...