[
  {
    "title": "A Farewell",
    "author": "Amy Levy",
    "lines": [
      "(After Heine.)",
      "",
      "",
      "The sad rain falls from Heaven,",
      "A sad bird pipes and sings ;",
      "I am sitting here at my window",
      "And watching the spires of \"King's.\"",
      "",
      "O fairest of all fair places,",
      "Sweetest of all sweet towns!",
      "With the birds, and the greyness and greenness,",
      "And the men in caps and gowns.",
      "",
      "All they that dwell within thee,",
      "To leave are ever loth,",
      "For one man gets friends, and another",
      "Gets honour, and one gets both.",
      "",
      "The sad rain falls from Heaven;",
      "My heart is great with woe--",
      "I have neither a friend nor honour,",
      "Yet I am sorry to go."
    ],
    "linecount": "17"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Farewell",
    "author": "Charles Kingsley",
    "lines": [
      "I",
      "",
      "My fairest child, I have no song to give you;",
      "No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:",
      "Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you",
      "For every day.",
      "",
      "II",
      "",
      "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;",
      "Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:",
      "And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever",
      "One grand, sweet song."
    ],
    "linecount": "10"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Farewell",
    "author": "Coventry Patmore",
    "lines": [
      "With all my will, but much against my heart,",
      "We two now part.",
      "My Very Dear,",
      "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear.",
      "It needs no art,",
      "With faint, averted feet",
      "And many a tear,",
      "In our opposèd paths to persevere.",
      "Go thou to East, I West.",
      "We will not say",
      "There 's any hope, it is so far away.",
      "But, O, my Best,",
      "When the one darling of our widowhead,",
      "The nursling Grief,",
      "Is dead,",
      "And no dews blur our eyes",
      "To see the peach-bloom come in evening skies,",
      "Perchance we may,",
      "Where now this night is day,",
      "And even through faith of still averted feet,",
      "Making full circle of our banishment,",
      "Amazèd meet;",
      "The bitter journey to the bourne so sweet",
      "Seasoning the termless feast of our content",
      "With tears of recognition never dry."
    ],
    "linecount": "25"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Farewell",
    "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson",
    "lines": [
      "Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,",
      "     Thy tribute wave deliver:",
      "No more by thee my steps shall be,",
      "     For ever and for ever.",
      "",
      "Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,",
      "     A rivulet then a river:",
      "Nowhere by thee my steps shall be",
      "     For ever and for ever.",
      "",
      "But here will sigh thine alder tree",
      "     And here thine aspen shiver;",
      "And here by thee will hum the bee,",
      "     For ever and for ever.",
      "",
      "A thousand suns will stream on thee,",
      "     A thousand moons will quiver;",
      "But not by thee my steps shall be,",
      "     For ever and for ever."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]