[
  {
    "title": "Dreams",
    "author": "Anne Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "While on my lonely couch I lie,",
      "I seldom feel myself alone,",
      "For fancy fills my dreaming eye",
      "With scenes and pleasures of its own.",
      "Then I may cherish at my breast",
      "An infant's form beloved and fair,",
      "May smile and soothe it into rest",
      "With all a Mother's fondest care.",
      "",
      "How sweet to feel its helpless form",
      "Depending thus on me alone!",
      "And while I hold it safe and warm",
      "What bliss to think it is my own!",
      "",
      "And glances then may meet my eyes",
      "That daylight never showed to me;",
      "What raptures in my bosom rise,",
      "Those earnest looks of love to see,",
      "",
      "To feel my hand so kindly prest,",
      "To know myself beloved at last,",
      "To think my heart has found a rest,",
      "My life of solitude is past!",
      "",
      "But then to wake and find it flown,",
      "The dream of happiness destroyed,",
      "To find myself unloved, alone,",
      "What tongue can speak the dreary void?",
      "",
      "A heart whence warm affections flow,",
      "Creator, thou hast given to me,",
      "And am I only thus to know",
      "How sweet the joys of love would be?"
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "Dreams",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!",
      "My spirit not awakening, till the beam",
      "Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.",
      "Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,",
      "'Twere better than the cold reality",
      "Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,",
      "And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,",
      "A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.",
      "But should it be--that dream eternally",
      "Continuing--as dreams have been to me",
      "In my young boyhood--should it thus be given,",
      "'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.",
      "For I have revelled when the sun was bright",
      "I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light",
      "And loveliness,--have left my very heart",
      "Inclines of my imaginary apart",
      "From mine own home, with beings that have been",
      "Of mine own thought--what more could I have seen?",
      "'Twas once--and only once--and the wild hour",
      "From my remembrance shall not pass--some power",
      "Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind",
      "Came o'er me in the night, and left behind",
      "Its image on my spirit--or the moon",
      "Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon",
      "Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was",
      "That dream was that that night-wind--let it pass.",
      "_I have been_ happy, though in a dream.",
      "I have been happy--and I love the theme:",
      "Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life",
      "As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife",
      "Of semblance with reality which brings",
      "To the delirious eye, more lovely things",
      "Of Paradise and Love--and all my own!--",
      "Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known."
    ],
    "linecount": "34"
  }
]