[
  {
    "title": "Happy the Lab'rer",
    "author": "Jane Austen",
    "lines": [
      "Happy the lab'rer in his Sunday clothes!",
      "In light-drab coat, smart waistcoat, well-darn'd hose,",
      "Andhat upon his head, to church he goes;",
      "As oft, with conscious pride, he downward throws",
      "A glance upon the ample cabbage rose",
      "That, stuck in button-hole, regales his nose,",
      "He envies not the gayest London beaux.",
      "In church he takes his seat among the rows,",
      "Pays to the place the reverence he owes,",
      "Likes best the prayers whose meaning least he knows,",
      "Lists to the sermon in a softening doze,",
      "And rouses joyous at the welcome close."
    ],
    "linecount": "12"
  },
  {
    "title": "To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16 -- my Birthday.",
    "author": "Jane Austen",
    "lines": [
      "The day returns again, my natal day;",
      "What mix'd emotions with the Thought arise!",
      "Beloved friend, four years have pass'd away",
      "Since thou wert snatch'd forever from our eyes.--",
      "The day, commemorative of my birth",
      "Bestowing Life and Light and Hope on me,",
      "Brings back the hour which was thy last on Earth.",
      "Oh! bitter pang of torturing Memory!--",
      "",
      "Angelic Woman! past my power to praise",
      "In Language meet, thy Talents, Temper, mind.",
      "Thy solid Worth, they captivating Grace!--",
      "Thou friend and ornament of Humankind!--",
      "",
      "At Johnson's death by Hamilton t'was said,",
      "'Seek we a substitute--Ah! vain the plan,",
      "No second best remains to Johnson dead--",
      "None can remind us even of the Man.'",
      "",
      "So we of thee--unequall'd in thy race",
      "Unequall'd thou, as he the first of Men.",
      "Vainly we wearch around the vacant place,",
      "We ne'er may look upon thy like again.",
      "",
      "Come then fond Fancy, thou indulgant Power,--",
      "--Hope is desponding, chill, severe to thee!--",
      "Bless thou, this little portion of an hour,",
      "Let me behold her as she used to be.",
      "",
      "I see her here, with all her smiles benign,",
      "Her looks of eager Love, her accents sweet.",
      "That voice and Countenance almost divine!--",
      "Expression, Harmony, alike complete.--",
      "",
      "I listen--'tis not sound alone--'tis sense,",
      "'Tis Genius, Taste and Tenderness of Soul.",
      "'Tis genuine warmth of heart without pretence",
      "And purity of Mind that crowns the whole.",
      "",
      "She speaks; 'tis Eloquence--that grace of Tongue",
      "So rare, so lovely!--Never misapplied",
      "By her to palliate Vice, or deck a Wrong,",
      "She speaks and reasons but on Virtue's side.",
      "",
      "Her's is the Engergy of Soul sincere.",
      "Her Christian Spirit ignorant to feign,",
      "Seeks but to comfort, heal, enlighten, chear,",
      "Confer a pleasure, or prevent a pain.--",
      "",
      "Can ought enhance such Goodness?--Yes, to me,",
      "Her partial favour from my earliest years",
      "Consummates all.--Ah! Give me yet to see",
      "Her smile of Love.--the Vision diappears.",
      "",
      "'Tis past and gone--We meet no more below.",
      "Short is the Cheat of Fancy o'er the Tomb.",
      "Oh! might I hope to equal Bliss to go!",
      "To meet thee Angel! in thy future home!--",
      "",
      "Fain would I feel an union in thy fate,",
      "Fain would I seek to draw an Omen fair",
      "From this connection in our Earthly date.",
      "Indulge the harmless weakness--Reason, spare.--"
    ],
    "linecount": "52"
  },
  {
    "title": "I've a Pain in my Head",
    "author": "Jane Austen",
    "lines": [
      "'I've a pain in my head'",
      "Said the suffering Beckford;",
      "To her Doctor so dread.",
      "'Oh! what shall I take for't?'",
      "",
      "Said this Doctor so dread",
      "Whose name it was Newnham.",
      "'For this pain in your head",
      "Ah! What can you do Ma'am?'",
      "",
      "Said Miss Beckford, 'Suppose",
      "If you think there's no risk,",
      "I take a good Dose",
      "Of calomel brisk.'--",
      "",
      "'What a praise worthy Notion.'",
      "Replied Mr. Newnham.",
      "'You shall have such a potion",
      "And so will I too Ma'am.'"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]