[
  {
    "title": "Before I got my eye put out",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "Before I got my eye put out,",
      "I liked as well to see",
      "As other creatures that have eyes,",
      "And know no other way.",
      "",
      "But were it told to me, to-day,",
      "That I might have the sky",
      "For mine, I tell you that my heart",
      "Would split, for size of me.",
      "",
      "The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --",
      "All forests, stintless stars,",
      "As much of noon as I could take",
      "Between my finite eyes.",
      "",
      "The motions of the dipping birds,",
      "The lightning's jointed road,",
      "For mine to look at when I liked, --",
      "The news would strike me dead!",
      "",
      "So safer, guess, with just my soul",
      "Upon the window-pane",
      "Where other creatures put their eyes,",
      "Incautious of the sun."
    ],
    "linecount": 20,
    "source": "Project Gutenberg — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242)"
  }
]