[
  {
    "title": "Confessions",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "What is he buzzing in my ears?",
      "  \"Now that I come to die,",
      "Do I view the world as a vale of tears?\"",
      "  Ah, reverend sir, not I!",
      "",
      "What I viewed there once, what I view again",
      "  Where the physic bottles stand",
      "On the table's edge,--is a suburb lane,",
      "  With a wall to my bedside hand.",
      "",
      "That lane sloped, much as the bottles do,",
      "  From a house you could descry",
      "O'er the garden-wall: is the curtain blue",
      "  Or green to a healthy eye?",
      "",
      "To mine, it serves for the old June weather",
      "  Blue above lane and wall;",
      "And that farthest bottle labelled \"Ether\"",
      "  Is the house o'er-topping all.",
      "",
      "At a terrace, somewhere near the stopper,",
      "  There watched for me, one June,",
      "A girl: I know, sir, it's improper,",
      "  My poor mind's out of tune.",
      "",
      "Only, there was a way ... you crept",
      "  Close by the side, to dodge",
      "Eyes in the house, two eyes except:",
      "  They styled their house \"The Lodge.\"",
      "",
      "What right had a lounger up their lane?",
      "  But, by creeping very close,",
      "With the good wall's help,--their eyes might strain",
      "  And stretch themselves to Oes,",
      "",
      "Yet never catch her and me together,",
      "  As she left the attic, there,",
      "By the rim of the bottle labelled \"Ether,\"",
      "  And stole from stair to stair",
      "",
      "And stood by the rose-wreathed gate. Alas,",
      "  We loved, sir--used to meet;",
      "How sad and bad and mad it was--",
      "  But then, how it was sweet!"
    ],
    "linecount": "36"
  }
]