id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3650 nan Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier .txt text/plain 70327 6686 94 If we define poetry as the heart of man expressed in beautiful language, He told our nation that in the new world as well as in the old some men Poe loved sad beauty and meditated on the sad things in life. comparison with the song of a man who sings because "the heart is so full High souls like those far stars that come in sight 'Tis life to feel the night-wind They fought like brave men, long and well; Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine! As long as Nature shall not grow old, Or like that sound which night and day "His verse blooms like a flower, night and day; ./cache/3650.txt ./txt/3650.txt