[
  {
    "title": "For Annie",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "Thank Heaven! the crisis--",
      "  The danger is past,",
      "And the lingering illness",
      "  Is over at last--",
      "And the fever called \"Living\"",
      "  Is conquered at last.",
      "",
      "Sadly, I know,",
      "  I am shorn of my strength,",
      "And no muscle I move",
      "  As I lie at full length--",
      "But no matter!--I feel",
      "  I am better at length.",
      "",
      "And I rest so composedly,",
      "  Now in my bed,",
      "That any beholder",
      "  Might fancy me dead--",
      "Might start at beholding me",
      "  Thinking me dead.",
      "",
      "The moaning and groaning,",
      "  The sighing and sobbing,",
      "Are quieted now,",
      "  With that horrible throbbing",
      "At heart:--ah, that horrible,",
      "  Horrible throbbing!",
      "",
      "The sickness--the nausea--",
      "  The pitiless pain--",
      "Have ceased, with the fever",
      "  That maddened my brain--",
      "With the fever called \"Living\"",
      "  That burned in my brain.",
      "",
      "And oh! of all tortures",
      "  _That_ torture the worst",
      "Has abated--the terrible",
      "  Torture of thirst,",
      "For the naphthaline river",
      "  Of Passion accurst:--",
      "I have drank of a water",
      "  That quenches all thirst:--",
      "",
      "Of a water that flows,",
      "  With a lullaby sound,",
      "From a spring but a very few",
      "  Feet under ground--",
      "From a cavern not very far",
      "  Down under ground.",
      "",
      "And ah! let it never",
      "  Be foolishly said",
      "That my room it is gloomy",
      "  And narrow my bed--",
      "For man never slept",
      "  In a different bed;",
      "And, to _sleep_, you must slumber",
      "  In just such a bed.",
      "",
      "My tantalized spirit",
      "  Here blandly reposes,",
      "Forgetting, or never",
      "  Regretting its roses--",
      "Its old agitations",
      "  Of myrtles and roses:",
      "",
      "For now, while so quietly",
      "  Lying, it fancies",
      "A holier odor",
      "  About it, of pansies--",
      "A rosemary odor,",
      "  Commingled with pansies--",
      "With rue and the beautiful",
      "  Puritan pansies.",
      "",
      "And so it lies happily,",
      "  Bathing in many",
      "A dream of the truth",
      "  And the beauty of Annie--",
      "Drowned in a bath",
      "  Of the tresses of Annie.",
      "",
      "She tenderly kissed me,",
      "  She fondly caressed,",
      "And then I fell gently",
      "  To sleep on her breast--",
      "Deeply to sleep",
      "  From the heaven of her breast.",
      "",
      "When the light was extinguished,",
      "  She covered me warm,",
      "And she prayed to the angels",
      "  To keep me from harm--",
      "To the queen of the angels",
      "  To shield me from harm.",
      "",
      "And I lie so composedly,",
      "  Now in my bed",
      "(Knowing her love)",
      "  That you fancy me dead--",
      "And I rest so contentedly,",
      "  Now in my bed,",
      "(With her love at my breast)",
      "  That you fancy me dead--",
      "That you shudder to look at me.",
      "  Thinking me dead.",
      "",
      "But my heart it is brighter",
      "  Than all of the many",
      "Stars in the sky,",
      "  For it sparkles with Annie--",
      "It glows with the light",
      "  Of the love of my Annie--",
      "With the thought of the light",
      "  Of the eyes of my Annie."
    ],
    "linecount": "102"
  }
]