[
  {
    "title": "A Pretty Woman",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers,",
      "    And the blue eye",
      "    Dear and dewy,",
      "And that infantine fresh air of hers!",
      "",
      "To think men cannot take you, Sweet,",
      "    And infold you,",
      "    Ay, and hold you,",
      "And so keep you what they make you, Sweet!",
      "",
      "You like us for a glance, you know--",
      "    For a word's sake",
      "    Or a sword's sake:",
      "All's the same, whate'er the chance, you know.",
      "",
      "And in turn we make you ours, we say--",
      "    You and youth too,",
      "    Eyes and mouth too,",
      "All the face composed of flowers, we say.",
      "",
      "All's our own, to make the most of, Sweet--",
      "    Sing and say for,",
      "    Watch and pray for,",
      "Keep a secret or go boast of, Sweet!",
      "",
      "But for loving, why, you would not, Sweet,",
      "    Tho' we prayed you,",
      "    Paid you, brayed you",
      "In a mortar--for you could not, Sweet!",
      "",
      "So, we leave the sweet face fondly there,",
      "    Be its beauty",
      "    Its sole duty!",
      "Let all hope of grace beyond, lie there!",
      "",
      "And while the face lies quiet there,",
      "    Who shall wonder",
      "    That I ponder",
      "A conclusion? I will try it there.",
      "",
      "As,--why must one, for the love foregone",
      "    Scout mere liking?",
      "    Thunder-striking",
      "Earth,--the heaven, we looked above for, gone!",
      "",
      "Why, with beauty, needs there money be,",
      "    Love with liking?",
      "    Crush the fly-king",
      "In his gauze, because no honey-bee?",
      "",
      "May not liking be so simple-sweet,",
      "    If love grew there",
      "    'Twould undo there",
      "All that breaks the cheek to dimples sweet?",
      "",
      "Is the creature too imperfect, say?",
      "    Would you mend it",
      "    And so end it?",
      "Since not all addition perfects aye!",
      "",
      "Or is it of its kind, perhaps,",
      "    Just perfection--",
      "    Whence, rejection",
      "Of a grace not to its mind, perhaps?",
      "",
      "Shall we burn up, tread that face at once",
      "    Into tinder,",
      "    And so hinder",
      "Sparks from kindling all the place at once?",
      "",
      "Or else kiss away one's soul on her?",
      "    Your love-fancies!",
      "    --A sick man sees",
      "Truer, when his hot eyes roll on her!",
      "",
      "Thus the craftsman thinks to grace the rose,--",
      "    Plucks a mould-flower",
      "    For his gold flower,",
      "Uses fine things that efface the rose.",
      "",
      "Rosy rubies make its cup more rose.",
      "    Precious metals",
      "    Ape the petals,--",
      "Last, some old king locks it up, morose!",
      "",
      "Then how grace a rose? I know a way!",
      "    Leave it, rather.",
      "    Must you gather?",
      "Smell, kiss, wear it--at last, throw away."
    ],
    "linecount": "72"
  }
]