[
  {
    "title": "In Youth I Have Known One",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "_How often we forget all time, when lone",
      "Admiring Nature's universal throne;",
      "Her woods--her wilds--her mountains--the intense",
      "Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!_",
      "",
      "In youth I have known one with whom the Earth",
      "  In secret communing held--as he with it,",
      "In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth:",
      "  Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit",
      "From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth",
      "  A passionate light such for his spirit was fit--",
      "And yet that spirit knew--not in the hour",
      "  Of its own fervor--what had o'er it power.",
      "",
      "Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought",
      "  To a ferver by the moonbeam that hangs o'er,",
      "But I will half believe that wild light fraught",
      "  With more of sovereignty than ancient lore",
      "Hath ever told--or is it of a thought",
      "  The unembodied essence, and no more",
      "That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass",
      "  As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?",
      "",
      "Doth o'er us pass, when, as th' expanding eye",
      "  To the loved object--so the tear to the lid",
      "Will start, which lately slept in apathy?",
      "  And yet it need not be--(that object) hid",
      "From us in life--but common--which doth lie",
      "  Each hour before us--but then only bid",
      "With a strange sound, as of a harp-string broken",
      "  T' awake us--'Tis a symbol and a token--",
      "",
      "Of what in other worlds shall be--and given",
      "  In beauty by our God, to those alone",
      "Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven",
      "  Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,",
      "That high tone of the spirit which hath striven",
      "  Though not with Faith--with godliness--whose throne",
      "With desperate energy 't hath beaten down;",
      "  Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown."
    ],
    "linecount": "36"
  }
]