[
  {
    "title": "I dreaded that first robin so",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "I dreaded that first robin so,",
      "But he is mastered now,",
      "And I 'm accustomed to him grown, --",
      "He hurts a little, though.",
      "",
      "I thought if I could only live",
      "Till that first shout got by,",
      "Not all pianos in the woods",
      "Had power to mangle me.",
      "",
      "I dared not meet the daffodils,",
      "For fear their yellow gown",
      "Would pierce me with a fashion",
      "So foreign to my own.",
      "",
      "I wished the grass would hurry,",
      "So when 't was time to see,",
      "He 'd be too tall, the tallest one",
      "Could stretch to look at me.",
      "",
      "I could not bear the bees should come,",
      "I wished they 'd stay away",
      "In those dim countries where they go:",
      "What word had they for me?",
      "",
      "They 're here, though; not a creature failed,",
      "No blossom stayed away",
      "In gentle deference to me,",
      "The Queen of Calvary.",
      "",
      "Each one salutes me as he goes,",
      "And I my childish plumes",
      "Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment",
      "Of their unthinking drums."
    ],
    "linecount": 28,
    "source": "Project Gutenberg — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242)"
  }
]