[
  {
    "title": "A Woman's Shortcomings",
    "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
    "lines": [
      "She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,",
      "She has counted six, and over,",
      "Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried -",
      "Oh, each a worthy lover!",
      "They \"give her time\"; for her soul must slip",
      "Where the world has set the grooving;",
      "She will lie to none with her fair red lip:",
      "But love seeks truer loving.",
      "",
      "She trembles her fan in a sweetness dumb,",
      "As her thoughts were beyond recalling;",
      "With a glance for one, and a glance for some,",
      "From her eyelids rising and falling;",
      "Speaks common words with a blushful air,",
      "Hears bold words, unreproving;",
      "But her silence says - what she never will swear -",
      "And love seeks better loving.",
      "",
      "Go, lady! lean to the night-guitar,",
      "And drop a smile to the bringer;",
      "Then smile as sweetly, when he is far,",
      "At the voice of an in-door singer.",
      "Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;",
      "Glance lightly, on their removing;",
      "And join new vows to old perjuries -",
      "But dare not call it loving!",
      "",
      "Unless you can think, when the song is done,",
      "No other is soft in the rhythm;",
      "Unless you can feel, when left by One,",
      "That all men else go with him;",
      "Unless you can know, when unpraised by his breath,",
      "That your beauty itself wants proving;",
      "Unless you can swear \"For life, for death!\" -",
      "Oh, fear to call it loving!",
      "",
      "Unless you can muse in a crowd all day",
      "On the absent face that fixed you;",
      "Unless you can love, as the angels may,",
      "With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;",
      "Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,",
      "Through behoving and unbehoving;",
      "Unless you can die when the dream is past -",
      "Oh, never call it loving!"
    ],
    "linecount": "40"
  }
]