[
  {
    "title": "Book IV. Ode I. to Venus.",
    "author": "Alexander Pope",
    "lines": [
      "Again? new tumults in my breast?",
      "  Ah, spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest!",
      "I am not now, alas! the man",
      "  As in the gentle reign of my Queen Anne.",
      "Ah, sound no more thy soft alarms,",
      "  Nor circle sober fifty with thy charms.",
      "Mother too fierce of dear desires!",
      "  Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires,",
      "To Number Five direct your doves,",
      "  There spread round Murray all your blooming loves",
      "Noble and young, who strikes the heart",
      "  With every sprightly, every decent part;",
      "Equal, the injured to defend,",
      "  To charm the mistress, or to fix the friend.",
      "He, with a hundred arts refined,",
      "  Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind;",
      "To him each rival shall submit,",
      "  Make but his riches equal to his wit.",
      "Then shall thy form the marble grace,",
      "  (Thy Grecian form) and Chloe lend the face:",
      "His house, embosom'd in the grove,",
      "  Sacred to social life and social love,",
      "Shall glitter o'er the pendant green,",
      "  Where Thames reflects the visionary scene:",
      "Thither, the silver-sounding lyres",
      "  Shall call the smiling Loves, and young Desires;",
      "There, every Grace and Muse shall throng,",
      "  Exalt the dance, or animate the song;",
      "There, youths and nymphs, in consort gay,",
      "  Shall hail the rising, close the parting day.",
      "With me, alas! those joys are o'er;",
      "  For me, the vernal garlands bloom no more.",
      "Adieu! fond hope of mutual fire,",
      "  The still believing, still-renew'd desire;",
      "Adieu! the heart-expanding bowl,",
      "  And all the kind deceivers of the soul!",
      "But why? ah, tell me, ah, too dear!",
      "  Steals down my cheek th' involuntary tear?",
      "Why words so flowing, thoughts so free,",
      "  Stop, or turn nonsense, at one glance of thee?",
      "Thee, dress'd in fancy's airy beam,",
      "  Absent I follow through th' extended dream;",
      "Now, now I seize, I clasp thy charms,",
      "  And now you burst (ah, cruel!) from my arms;",
      "And swiftly shoot along the Mall,",
      "  Or softly glide by the canal,",
      "Now shown by Cynthia's silver ray,",
      "  And now on rolling waters snatch'd away."
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]