[
  {
    "title": "A Dream",
    "author": "Helen Hunt Jackson",
    "lines": [
      "I dreamed that I ws dead and crossed the heavens,--",
      "Heavens after heavens with burning feet and swift,--",
      "And cried: \"O God, where art Thou?\" I left one",
      "On earth, whose burden I would pray Thee lift.\"",
      "",
      "I was so dead I wondered at no thing,--",
      "Not even that the angels slowly turned",
      "Their faces, speechless, as I hurried by",
      "(Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned);",
      "",
      "Nor, at the first, that I could not find God,",
      "Because the heavens stretched endlessly like space.",
      "At last a terror siezed my very soul;",
      "I seemed alone in all the crowded place.",
      "",
      "Then, sudden, one compassionate cried out,",
      "Though like the rest his face from me he turned,",
      "As I were one no angel might regard",
      "(Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned):",
      "",
      "\"No moew in heaven than earth will he find God",
      "Who does not know his loving mercy swift",
      "But waits the moment consummate and ripe,",
      "Each burden, from each human soul to lift.\"",
      "",
      "Though I was dead, I died again for shame;",
      "Lonely, to flee from heaven again I turned;",
      "The ranks of angels looked away from me",
      "(Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned)."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Dream",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "OVER known fields with an old friend in dream",
      "I walked, but came sudden to a strange stream.",
      "Its dark waters were bursting out most bright",
      "From a great mountain's heart into the light.",
      "They ran a short course under the sun, then back",
      "Into a pit they plunged, once more as black",
      "As at their birth; and I stood thinking there",
      "How white, had the day shone on them, they were,",
      "Heaving and coiling. So by the roar and hiss",
      "And by the mighty motion of the abyss",
      "I was bemused, that I forgot my friend",
      "And neither saw nor sought him till the end,",
      "When I awoke from waters unto men",
      "Saying: \"I shall be here some day again.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Dream",
    "author": "William Blake",
    "lines": [
      "Once a dream did weave a shade",
      "O'er my angel-guarded bed,",
      "That an emmet lost its way",
      "Where on grass methought I lay.",
      "",
      "Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,",
      "Dark, benighted, travel-worn,",
      "Over many a tangle spray,",
      "All heart-broke, I heard her say:",
      "",
      "\"Oh my children! do they cry,",
      "Do they hear their father sigh?",
      "Now they look abroad to see,",
      "Now return and weep for me.\"",
      "",
      "Pitying, I dropped a tear:",
      "But I saw a glow-worm near,",
      "Who replied, \"What wailing wight",
      "Calls the watchman of the night?",
      "",
      "\"I am set to light the ground,",
      "While the beetle goes his round:",
      "Follow now the beetle's hum;",
      "Little wanderer, hie thee home!\""
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Dream",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "In visions of the dark night",
      "  I have dreamed of joy departed--",
      "But a waking dream of life and light",
      "  Hath left me broken-hearted.",
      "",
      "Ah! what is not a dream by day",
      "  To him whose eyes are cast",
      "On things around him with a ray",
      "  Turned back upon the past?",
      "",
      "That holy dream--that holy dream,",
      "  While all the world were chiding,",
      "Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,",
      "  A lonely spirit guiding.",
      "",
      "What though that light, thro' storm and night,",
      "  So trembled from afar--",
      "What could there be more purely bright",
      "  In Truth's day star?"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]