item: #1 of 4
          id: 10031
      author: Poe, Edgar Allan
       title: The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry
        date: None
       words: 61731
      flesch: 78
     summary: And these men--the poets--living and perishing amid the scorn of the utilitarians--of rough pedants, who arrogated to themselves a title which could have been properly applied only to the scorned--these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our wants were not more simple than our enjoyments were keen--days when _mirth_ was a word unknown, so solemnly deep-toned was happiness--holy, august, and blissful days, blue rivers ran undammed, between hills unhewn, into far forest solitudes, primeval, odorous, and unexplored. As these crossed the direct line of my vision they affected me as _forms;_ but upon passing to my side their images impressed me with the idea of shrieks, groans, and, other dismal expressions of terror, of horror, or of woe.
    keywords: air; alas; author; beauty; bells; days; death; dream; earl; earth; effect; end; eyes; flowers; footnote; god; half; hath; heart; heaven; home; hope; idea; left; length; let; life; lines; love; magazine; man; men; mind; moon; music; night; o'er; poe; poem; poet; poetry; politian; power; raven; reason; shadow; sorrow; soul; sound; spirit; star; sun; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; truth; voice; wild; words; work; world
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 1062
      author: Poe, Edgar Allan
       title: First Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan Poe
        date: None
       words: 6077
      flesch: 82
     summary: There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers. Till I scarcely more than muttered: Other friends have flown before-- On the morrow _he_ will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.
    keywords: amontillado; bird; chamber; clock; death; fortunato; light; prince; raven; wall
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 1065
      author: Poe, Edgar Allan
       title: The Raven
        date: None
       words: 1095
      flesch: 72
     summary: But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-- What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking Nevermore. Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door-- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as Nevermore.
    keywords: chamber; raven
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 17192
      author: Poe, Edgar Allan
       title: The Raven
        date: None
       words: 7280
      flesch: 73
     summary: In 1843, Albert Pike, the half-Greek, half-frontiersman, poet of Arkansas, had printed in The New Mirror, for which Poe then was writing, some verses entitled Isadore, but since revised by the author and called The Widowed Heart. As many poets, so many charms.
    keywords: angels; bird; chamber; door; illustration; lenore; poe; poem; poet; raven; sorrow; soul; thee
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