[
  {
    "title": "\"De Gustibus--\"",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees,",
      "    (If our loves remain)",
      "    In an English lane,",
      "By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.",
      "Hark, those two in the hazel coppice--",
      "A boy and a girl, if the good fates please,",
      "    Making love, say,--",
      "    The happier they!",
      "Draw yourself up from the light of the moon.",
      "And let them pass, as they will too soon,",
      "    With the beanflower's boon,",
      "    And the blackbird's tune,",
      "    And May, and June!",
      "",
      "What I love best in all the world",
      "Is a castle, precipice-encurled,",
      "In a gash of the wind-grieved Apennine.",
      "Or look for me, old fellow of mine,",
      "(If I get my head from out the mouth",
      "O' the grave, and loose my spirit's bands,",
      "And come again to the land of lands)--",
      "In a sea-side house to the farther South,",
      "Where the baked cicala dies of drouth,",
      "And one sharp tree--'tis a cypress--stands,",
      "By the many hundred years red-rusted,",
      "Bough iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o'ercrusted,",
      "My sentinel to guard the sands",
      "To the water's edge. For, what expands",
      "Before the house, but the great opaque",
      "Blue breadth of sea without a break?",
      "While, in the house, forever crumbles",
      "Some fragment of the frescoed walls,",
      "From blisters where a scorpion sprawls.",
      "A girl bare-footed brings, and tumbles",
      "Down on the pavement, green-flesh melons,",
      "And says there's news to-day--the king",
      "Was shot at, touched in the liver-wing,",
      "Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling:",
      "--She hopes they have not caught the felons.",
      "Italy, my Italy!",
      "Queen Mary's saying serves for me--",
      "    (When fortune's malice",
      "    Lost her, Calais)",
      "Open my heart and you will see",
      "Graved inside of it, \"Italy.\"",
      "Such lovers old are I and she:",
      "So it always was, so shall ever be!"
    ],
    "linecount": "46"
  }
]