[
  {
    "title": "Death And Birth",
    "author": "Algernon Charles Swinburne",
    "lines": [
      "Death and birth should dwell not near together:",
      "Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:",
      "Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether",
      "Death and birth.",
      "",
      "Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth",
      "Seems that girds them each with each: yet whether",
      "Death be best, who knows, or life on earth?",
      "",
      "Ill the rose-red and the sable feather",
      "Blend in one crown's plume, as grief with mirth:",
      "Ill met still are warm and wintry weather,",
      "Death and birth."
    ],
    "linecount": "11"
  }
]