[
  {
    "title": "Marriage Bells",
    "author": "Emma Lazarus",
    "lines": [
      "Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,",
      "Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower;",
      "Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere.",
      "She, rapt from all in this unearthly hour,",
      "With cloudlike, cast-back veil and faint-flushed cheek,",
      "In bridal beauty moves as in a trance",
      "Alone with him, and fears to breathe, to speak,",
      "Lest the rare, subtle spell dissolve perchance.",
      "But he upon that floral head looks down,",
      "Noting the misty eyes, the grave sweet brow--",
      "Doubts if her bliss be perfect as his own,",
      "And dedicates anew with inward vow",
      "His soul unto her service, to repay",
      "Richly the sacrifice she yields this day."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "Success",
    "author": "Emma Lazarus",
    "lines": [
      "Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain,",
      "The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng.",
      "These I ignore to-day and only long",
      "To pour my soul forth in one trumpet strain,",
      "One clear, grief-shattering, triumphant song,",
      "For all the victories of man's high endeavor,",
      "Palm-bearing, laurel deeds that live forever,",
      "The splendor clothing him whose will is strong.",
      "Hast thou beheld the deep, glad eyes of one",
      "Who has persisted and achieved? Rejoice!",
      "On naught diviner shines the all-seeing sun.",
      "Salute him with free heart and choral voice,",
      "'Midst flippant, feeble crowds of spectres wan,",
      "The bold, significant, successful man."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "Life and Art",
    "author": "Emma Lazarus",
    "lines": [
      "Not while the fever of the blood is strong,",
      "The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less",
      "With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless",
      "The poet-sould to help and soothe with song.",
      "Not then she bids his trembling lips express",
      "The aching gladness, the voluptuous pain.",
      "Life is his poem then; flesh, sense, and brain",
      "One full-stringed lyre attuned to happiness.",
      "But when the dream is done, the pulses fail,",
      "The day's illusion, with the day's sun set,",
      "He, lonely in the twilight, sees the pale",
      "Divine Consoler, featured like Regret,",
      "Enter and clasp his hand and kiss his brow.",
      "Then his lips ope to sing--as mine do now."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "Sympathy",
    "author": "Emma Lazarus",
    "lines": [
      "Therefore I dare reveal my private woe,",
      "The secret blots of my imperfect heart,",
      "Nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert,",
      "Nor beautify nor hide. For this I know,",
      "That even as I am, thou also art.",
      "Thou past heroic forms unmoved shalt go,",
      "To pause and bide with me, to whisper low:",
      "\"Not I alone am weak, not I apart",
      "Must suffer, struggle, conquer day by day.",
      "Here is my very cross by strangers borne,",
      "Here is my bosom-sin wherefrom I pray",
      "Hourly deliverance--this my rose, my thorn.",
      "This woman my soul's need can understand,",
      "Stretching o'er silent gulfs her sister hand.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]