[
  {
    "title": "Autumnal Sonnet",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,",
      "And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,",
      "And night by night the monitory blast",
      "Wails in the key-hold, telling how it pass'd",
      "O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes,",
      "Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt",
      "Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods",
      "Than any joy indulgent summer dealt.",
      "Dear friends, together in the glimmering eve,",
      "Pensive and glad, with tones that recognise",
      "The soft invisible dew in each one's eyes,",
      "It may be, somewhat thus we shall have leave",
      "To walk with memory,--when distant lies",
      "Poor Earth, where we were wont to live and grieve."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "On a Forenoon of Spring",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel",
      "The full deliciousness of this bright day,",
      "That's like a heart with nothing to conceal;",
      "The young leaves scarcely trembling; the blue-grey",
      "Rimming the cloudless ether far away;",
      "Brairds, hedges, shadows; mountains that reveal",
      "Soft sapphire; this great floor of polished steel",
      "Spread out amidst the landmarks of the bay.",
      "",
      "I stoop in sunshine to our circling net",
      "From the black gunwale; tend these milky kine",
      "Up their rough path; sit by yon cottage-door",
      "Plying the diligent thread; take wings and soar--",
      "O hark how with the season's laureate",
      "Joy culminates in song! If such a song were mine!"
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Memory",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "Four ducks on a pond,",
      "A grass-bank beyond,",
      "A blue sky of spring,",
      "White clouds on the wing;",
      "What a little thing",
      "To remember for years-",
      "To remember with tears!"
    ],
    "linecount": "7"
  },
  {
    "title": "Late Autumn",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "October - and the skies are cool and gray",
      "O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf,",
      "Bare meadow, and the slowly falling leaf.",
      "The dignity of woods in rich decay",
      "Accords full well with this majestic grief",
      "That clothes our solemn purple hills to-day,",
      "Whose afternoon is hush'd, and wintry brief",
      "Only a robin sings from any spray.",
      "",
      "And night sends up her pale cold moon, and spills",
      "White mist around the hollows of the hills,",
      "Phantoms of firth or lake; the peasant sees",
      "His cot and stockyard, with the homestead trees,",
      "Islanded; but no foolish terror thrills",
      "His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "In a Spring Grove",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "Here the white-ray'd anemone is born,",
      "Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup;",
      "And primrose in its purfled green swathed up,",
      "Pallid and sweet round every budding thorn,",
      "Gray ash, and beech with rusty leaves outworn.",
      "Here, too the darting linnet hath her nest",
      "In the blue-lustred holly, never shorn,",
      "Whose partner cheers her little brooding breast,",
      "Piping from some near bough. O simple song!",
      "O cistern deep of that harmonious rillet,",
      "And these fair juicy stems that climb and throng",
      "The vernal world, and unexhausted seas",
      "Of flowing life, and soul that asks to fill it,",
      "Each and all of these,--and more, and more than these!"
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "Wayside Flowers",
    "author": "William Allingham",
    "lines": [
      "Pluck not the wayside flower,",
      "It is the traveller's dower;",
      "A thousand passers-by",
      "Its beauties may espy,",
      "May win a touch of blessing",
      "From Nature's mild caressing.",
      "The sad of heart perceives",
      "A violet under leaves",
      "Like sonic fresh-budding hope;",
      "The primrose on the slope",
      "A spot of sunshine dwells,",
      "And cheerful message tells",
      "Of kind renewing power;",
      "The nodding bluebell's dye",
      "Is drawn from happy sky.",
      "Then spare the wayside flower!",
      "It is the traveller's dower."
    ],
    "linecount": "17"
  }
]