[
  {
    "title": "A Light Woman",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "So far as our story approaches the end,",
      "   Which do you pity the most of us three?",
      "My friend, or the mistress of my friend",
      "   With her wanton eyes, or me?",
      "",
      "My friend was already too good to lose,",
      "   And seemed in the way of improvement yet,",
      "When she crossed his path with her hunting noose",
      "   And over him drew her net.",
      "",
      "When I saw him tangled in her toils,",
      "   A shame, said I, if she adds just him",
      "To her nine-and-ninety other spoils,",
      "   The hundredth for a whim!",
      "",
      "And before my friend be wholly hers,",
      "   How easy to prove to him, I said,",
      "An eagle's the game her pride prefers,",
      "   Though she snaps at a wren instead!",
      "",
      "So, I gave her eyes my own eyes to take,",
      "   My hand sought hers as in earnest need,",
      "And round she turned for my noble sake,",
      "   And gave me herself indeed.",
      "",
      "The eagle am I, with my fame in the world,",
      "   The wren is he, with his maiden face.",
      "You look away and your lip is curled?",
      "   Patience, a moment's space!",
      "",
      "For see, my friend goes shaking and white;",
      "   He eyes me as the basilisk:",
      "I have turned, it appears, his day to night,",
      "   Eclipsing his sun's disk.",
      "",
      "And I did it, he thinks, as a very thief:",
      "   \"Though I love her--that, he comprehends--",
      "One should master one's passions (love, in chief)",
      "   And be loyal to one's friends!\"",
      "",
      "And she,--she lies in my hand as tame",
      "   As a pear late basking over a wall;",
      "Just a touch to try and off it came;",
      "   'Tis mine,--can I let it fall?",
      "",
      "With no mind to eat it, that's the worst!",
      "   Were it thrown in the road, would the case assist?",
      "'Twas quenching a dozen blue-flies' thirst",
      "   When I gave its stalk a twist.",
      "",
      "And I,--what I seem to my friend, you see:",
      "   What I soon shall seem to his love, you guess:",
      "What I seem to myself, do you ask of me?",
      "   No hero, I confess.",
      "",
      "'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls,",
      "   And matter enough to save one's own:",
      "Yet think of my friend, and the burning coals",
      "   He played with for bits of stone!",
      "",
      "One likes to show the truth for the truth;",
      "   That the woman was light is very true:",
      "But suppose she says,--Never mind that youth!",
      "   What wrong have I done to you?",
      "",
      "Well, any how, here the story stays,",
      "   So far at least as I understand;",
      "And, Robert Browning, you writer of plays,",
      "   Here's a subject made to your hand!"
    ],
    "linecount": "56"
  }
]