[
  {
    "title": "A Ballad of Dreamland",
    "author": "Algernon Charles Swinburne",
    "lines": [
      "I hid my heart in a nest of roses,",
      "Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;",
      "In a softer bed then the soft white snow's is,",
      "Under the roses I hid my heart.",
      "Why would it sleep not? why should it start,",
      "When never a leaf of the rose-tree stirred?",
      "What made sleep flutter his wings and part?",
      "Only the song of a secret bird.",
      "",
      "Lie still, I said, for the wind's wing closes,",
      "And mild leaves muffle the keen sun's dart;",
      "Lie still, for the wind on the warm seas dozes,",
      "And the wind is unquieter yet than thou art.",
      "Does a thought in thee still as a thorn's wound smart?",
      "Does the fang still fret thee of hope deferred?",
      "What bids the lips of thy sleep dispart?",
      "Only the song of a secret bird.",
      "",
      "The green land's name that a charm encloses,",
      "It never was writ in the traveller's chart,",
      "And sweet on its trees as the fruit that grows is,",
      "It never was sold in the merchant's mart.",
      "The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart,",
      "And sleep's are the tunes in its tree-tops heard;",
      "No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart,",
      "Only the song of a secret bird.",
      "",
      "",
      "ENVOI",
      "",
      "In the world of dreams I have chosen my part,",
      "To sleep for a season and hear no word",
      "Of true love's truth or of light love's art,",
      "Only the song of a secret bird."
    ],
    "linecount": "29"
  },
  {
    "title": "Dreamland",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "By a route obscure and lonely,",
      "Haunted by ill angels only,",
      "Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,",
      "On a black throne reigns upright,",
      "I have reached these lands but newly",
      "From an ultimate dim Thule--",
      "From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,",
      "  Out of SPACE--out of TIME.",
      "",
      "Bottomless vales and boundless floods,",
      "And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,",
      "With forms that no man can discover",
      "For the dews that drip all over;",
      "Mountains toppling evermore",
      "Into seas without a shore;",
      "Seas that restlessly aspire,",
      "Surging, unto skies of fire;",
      "Lakes that endlessly outspread",
      "Their lone waters--lone and dead,",
      "Their still waters--still and chilly",
      "With the snows of the lolling lily.",
      "",
      "By the lakes that thus outspread",
      "Their lone waters, lone and dead,--",
      "Their sad waters, sad and chilly",
      "With the snows of the lolling lily,--",
      "",
      "By the mountains--near the river",
      "Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,--",
      "By the gray woods,--by the swamp",
      "Where the toad and the newt encamp,--",
      "By the dismal tarns and pools",
      "  Where dwell the Ghouls,--",
      "By each spot the most unholy--",
      "In each nook most melancholy,--",
      "",
      "There the traveller meets aghast",
      "Sheeted Memories of the past--",
      "Shrouded forms that start and sigh",
      "As they pass the wanderer by--",
      "White-robed forms of friends long given,",
      "In agony, to the Earth--and Heaven.",
      "",
      "For the heart whose woes are legion",
      "'Tis a peaceful, soothing region--",
      "For the spirit that walks in shadow",
      "'Tis--oh, 'tis an Eldorado!",
      "But the traveller, travelling through it,",
      "May not--dare not openly view it;",
      "Never its mysteries are exposed",
      "To the weak human eye unclosed;",
      "So wills its King, who hath forbid",
      "The uplifting of the fringed lid;",
      "And thus the sad Soul that here passes",
      "Beholds it but through darkened glasses.",
      "",
      "By a route obscure and lonely,",
      "Haunted by ill angels only.",
      "",
      "Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,",
      "On a black throne reigns upright,",
      "I have wandered home but newly",
      "From this ultimate dim Thule."
    ],
    "linecount": "56"
  }
]