[
  {
    "title": "Death is a Dialogue between",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "Death is a Dialogue between",
      "The Spirit and the Dust.",
      "\"Dissolve\" says Death -- The Spirit \"Sir",
      "I have another Trust\" --",
      "",
      "Death doubts it -- Argues from the Ground --",
      "The Spirit turns away",
      "Just laying off for evidence",
      "An Overcoat of Clay."
    ],
    "linecount": "8"
  },
  {
    "title": "A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HIMSELF AND MISTRESS ELIZAWHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF AMARILLIS",
    "author": "Robert Herrick",
    "lines": [
      "My dearest Love, since thou wilt go,",
      "And leave me here behind thee;",
      "For love or pity, let me know",
      "The place where I may find thee.",
      "",
      "AMARIL. In country meadows, pearl'd with dew,",
      "And set about with lilies;",
      "There, filling maunds with cowslips, you",
      "May find your Amarillis.",
      "",
      "HER. What have the meads to do with thee,",
      "Or with thy youthful hours?",
      "Live thou at court, where thou mayst be",
      "The queen of men, not flowers.",
      "",
      "Let country wenches make 'em fine",
      "With posies, since 'tis fitter",
      "For thee with richest gems to shine,",
      "And like the stars to glitter.",
      "",
      "AMARIL. You set too-high a rate upon",
      "A shepherdess so homely.",
      "HER. Believe it, dearest, there's not one",
      "I' th' court that's half so comely.",
      "",
      "I prithee stay. AMARIL. I must away;",
      "Let's kiss first, then we'll sever;",
      "AMBO And though we bid adieu to day,",
      "We shall not part for ever."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Dialogue",
    "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
    "lines": [
      "DEATH:",
      "For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,",
      "I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,",
      "Where Innocence sleeps 'neath the peace-giving sod,",
      "And the good cease to tremble at Tyranny's nod;",
      "I offer a calm habitation to thee,--",
      "Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?",
      "My mansion is damp, cold silence is there,",
      "But it lulls in oblivion the fiends of despair;",
      "Not a groan of regret, not a sigh, not a breath,",
      "Dares dispute with grim Silence the empire of Death.",
      "I offer a calm habitation to thee,--",
      "Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?",
      "",
      "MORTAL:",
      "Mine eyelids are heavy; my soul seeks repose,",
      "It longs in thy cells to embosom its woes,",
      "It longs in thy cells to deposit its load,",
      "Where no longer the scorpions of Perfidy goad,--",
      "Where the phantoms of Prejudice vanish away,",
      "And Bigotry's bloodhounds lose scent of their prey.",
      "Yet tell me, dark Death, when thine empire is o'er,",
      "What awaits on Futurity's mist-covered shore?",
      "",
      "DEATH:",
      "Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil",
      "The shadows that float o'er Eternity's vale;",
      "Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love,",
      "That will hail their blest advent to regions above.",
      "For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway,",
      "And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.",
      "Hast thou loved?--Then depart from these regions of hate,",
      "And in slumber with me blunt the arrows of fate.",
      "I offer a calm habitation to thee.--",
      "Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?",
      "",
      "MORTAL:",
      "Oh! sweet is thy slumber! oh! sweet is the ray",
      "Which after thy night introduces the day;",
      "How concealed, how persuasive, self-interest's breath,",
      "Though it floats to mine ear from the bosom of Death!",
      "I hoped that I quite was forgotten by all,",
      "Yet a lingering friend might be grieved at my fall,",
      "And duty forbids, though I languish to die,",
      "When departure might heave Virtue's breast with a sigh.",
      "O Death! O my friend! snatch this form to thy shrine,",
      "And I fear, dear destroyer, I shall not repine."
    ],
    "linecount": "44"
  }
]