[
  {
    "title": "A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion",
    "author": "Samuel Coleridge",
    "lines": [
      "Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation!",
      "Wherever they can come",
      "With clankum and blankum",
      "'Tis all Botheration, & Hell & Damnation,",
      "With fun, jeering",
      "Conjuring",
      "Sky-staring,",
      "Loungering,",
      "And still to the tune of Transmogrification--",
      "Those muttering",
      "Spluttering",
      "Ventriloquogusty",
      "Poets",
      "With no Hats",
      "Or Hats that are rusty.",
      "They're my Torment and Curse",
      "And harass me worse",
      "And bait me and bay me, far sorer I vow",
      "Than the Screech of the Owl",
      "Or the witch-wolf's long howl,",
      "Or sheep-killing Butcher-dog's inward Bow wow",
      "For me they all spite--an unfortunate Wight.",
      "And the very first moment that I came to Light",
      "A Rascal call'd Voss the more to his scandal,",
      "Turn'd me into a sickle with never a handle.",
      "A Night or two after a worse Rogue there came,",
      "The head of the Gang, one Wordsworth by name--",
      "`Ho! What's in the wind?' 'Tis the voice of a Wizzard!",
      "I saw him look at me most terribly blue !",
      "He was hunting for witch-rhymes from great A to Izzard,",
      "And soon as he'd found them made no more ado",
      "But chang'd me at once to a little Canoe.",
      "From this strange Enchantment uncharm'd by degrees",
      "I began to take courage & hop'd for some Ease,",
      "When one Coleridge, a Raff of the self-same Banditti",
      "Past by--& intending no doubt to be witty,",
      "Because I'd th' ill-fortune his taste to displease,",
      "He turn'd up his nose,",
      "And in pitiful Prose",
      "Made me into the half of a small Cheshire Cheese.",
      "Well, a night or two past--it was wind, rain & hail--",
      "And I ventur'd abroad in a thick Cloak & veil--",
      "But the very first Evening he saw me again",
      "The last mentioned Ruffian popp'd out of his Den--",
      "I was resting a moment on the bare edge of Naddle",
      "I fancy the sight of me turn'd his Brains addle--",
      "For what was I now?",
      "A complete Barley-mow",
      "And when I climb'd higher he made a long leg,",
      "And chang'd me at once to an Ostrich's Egg--",
      "But now Heaven be praised in contempt of the Loon,",
      "I am I myself I, the jolly full Moon.",
      "Yet my heart is still fluttering--",
      "For I heard the Rogue muttering--",
      "He was hulking and skulking at the skirt of a Wood",
      "When lightly & brightly on tip-toe I stood",
      "On the long level Line of a motionless Cloud",
      "And ho! what a Skittle-ground! quoth he aloud",
      "And wish'd from his heart nine Nine-pins to see",
      "In brightness & size just proportion'd to me.",
      "So I fear'd from my soul,",
      "That he'd make me a Bowl,",
      "But in spite of his spite",
      "This was more than his might",
      "And still Heaven be prais'd! in contempt of the Loon",
      "I am I myself I, the jolly full Moon."
    ],
    "linecount": "66"
  }
]