[
  {
    "title": "A Prayer",
    "author": "Amy Levy",
    "lines": [
      "Since that I may not have",
      "Love on this side the grave,",
      "Let me imagine Love.",
      "Since not mine is the bliss",
      "Of 'claspt hands and lips that kiss,'",
      "Let me in dreams it prove.",
      "What tho' as the years roll",
      "No soul shall melt to my soul,",
      "Let me conceive such thing;",
      "Tho' never shall entwine",
      "Loving arms around mine",
      "Let dreams caresses bring.",
      "To live--it is my doom--",
      "Lonely as in a tomb,",
      "This cross on me was laid;",
      "My God, I know not why;",
      "Here in the dark I lie,",
      "Lonely, yet not afraid.",
      "It has seemed good to Thee",
      "Still to withhold the key",
      "Which opes the way to men;",
      "I am shut in alone,",
      "I make not any moan,",
      "Thy ways are past my ken.",
      "Yet grant me this, to find",
      "The sweetness in my mind",
      "Which I must still forego;",
      "Great God which art above,",
      "Grant me to image Love,--",
      "The bliss without the woe."
    ],
    "linecount": "30"
  },
  {
    "title": "A Prayer",
    "author": "Anne Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,",
      "Weak, wretched sinner though I be),",
      "My trembling soul would fain be Thine;",
      "My feeble faith still clings to Thee.",
      "",
      "Not only for the Past I grieve,",
      "The Future fills me with dismay;",
      "Unless Thou hasten to relieve,",
      "Thy suppliant is a castaway.",
      "",
      "I cannot say my faith is strong,",
      "I dare not hope my love is great;",
      "But strength and love to Thee belong;",
      "Oh, do not leave me desolate!",
      "",
      "I know I owe my all to Thee;",
      "Oh, TAKE the heart I cannot give!",
      "Do Thou my strength--my Saviour be,",
      "And MAKE me to Thy glory live."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]