I lived from 1825-1873.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
I was influenced by poet Edgar Allan Poe.
Little is known about this poet or his work, which is sometimes attributed to E A Poe
He was born on February 2, 1825 and died in May 1873 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA, USA and his parents were Chloe Read and Abijah Metcalf Ide.
He earned his living as a farmer and edited a number of periodicals
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Ide started writing poetry early and at the age of 18 he in a letter to E A Poe he claims not to have studied the art of poetry apart from what he learned in elementary school.
He describes himself at the time to Poe in a short extract from one of his own poems as:-
I am eighteen; and
This have I learned, that to my hand,
Is given the labor of the land :
My foot must tread the furrowed ground,
And stand when harvest-time comes round :
To me is given the laborer's care --
In autumn, mine the laborer's share.
Ide's reasons for writing to Poe (and there are several of his letters extant) seems to have been to learn from the "published" poet more of the mechanics of the trade and to gain advice on improving his own work.
Ide is known to have written to other literary luminaries of the time.
Links of interest include
http://www.eapoe.org/people/ideam.htm
My poetry
IN these rapid, restless shadows,
Once I walked at eventide,
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BENEATH the vine-clad eaves,
Whose shadows fall before
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’TIS said that when
The hands of men
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