[
  {
    "title": "Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree",
    "author": "John Donne",
    "lines": [
      "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree",
      "Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,",
      "If lecherous goats, if serpents envious",
      "Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be?",
      "Why should intent or reason, born in me,",
      "Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?",
      "And Mercy being easy, and glorious",
      "To God; in his stern wrath, why threatens he?",
      "But who am I, that dare dispute with thee",
      "O God? Oh! of thine only worthy blood,",
      "And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,",
      "And drown in it my sin's black memory;",
      "That thou remember them, some claim as debt,",
      "I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]