[
  {
    "title": "Farewell",
    "author": "Anne Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "Farewell to thee! but not farewell",
      "To all my fondest thoughts of thee:",
      "Within my heart they still shall dwell;",
      "And they shall cheer and comfort me.",
      "O, beautiful, and full of grace!",
      "If thou hadst never met mine eye,",
      "I had not dreamed a living face",
      "Could fancied charms so far outvie.",
      "",
      "If I may ne'er behold again",
      "That form and face so dear to me,",
      "Nor hear thy voice, still would I fain",
      "Preserve, for aye, their memory.",
      "",
      "That voice, the magic of whose tone",
      "Can wake an echo in my breast,",
      "Creating feelings that, alone,",
      "Can make my tranced spirit blest.",
      "",
      "That laughing eye, whose sunny beam",
      "My memory would not cherish less; --",
      "And oh, that smile! whose joyous gleam",
      "Nor mortal language can express.",
      "",
      "Adieu, but let me cherish, still,",
      "The hope with which I cannot part.",
      "Contempt may wound, and coldness chill,",
      "But still it lingers in my heart.",
      "",
      "And who can tell but Heaven, at last,",
      "May answer all my thousand prayers,",
      "And bid the future pay the past",
      "With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?"
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "Farewell",
    "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
    "lines": [
      "FAREWELL, and when forth",
      "I through the Golden Gates to Golden Isles",
      "Steer without smiling, through the sea of smiles,",
      "Isle upon isle, in the seas of the south,",
      "Isle upon island, sea upon sea,",
      "Why should I sail, why should the breeze?",
      "I have been young, and I have counted friends.",
      "A hopeless sail I spread, too late, too late.",
      "Why should I from isle to isle",
      "Sail, a hopeless sailor?"
    ],
    "linecount": "10"
  },
  {
    "title": "Farewell",
    "author": "John Clare",
    "lines": [
      "Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river",
      "And the flags where the butter-bump hides in for ever;",
      "Farewell to the weedy nook, hemmed in by waters;",
      "Farewell to the miller's brook and his three bonny daughters;",
      "Farewell to them all while in prison I lie--",
      "In the prison a thrall sees nought but the sky.",
      "",
      "Shut out are the green fields and birds in the bushes;",
      "In the prison yard nothing builds, blackbirds or thrushes,",
      "Farewell to the old mill and dash of the waters,",
      "To the miller and, dearer still, to his three bonny daughters.",
      "",
      "In the nook, the large burdock grows near the green willow;",
      "In the flood, round the moorcock dashes under the billow;",
      "To the old mill farewell, to the lock, pens, and waters,",
      "To the miller himsel', and his three bonny daughters."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]