[
  {
    "title": "If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "If sometimes in the haunts of men",
      "  Thine image from my breast may fade,",
      "The lonely hour presents again",
      "  The semblance of thy gentle shade:",
      "And now that sad and silent hour",
      "  Thus much of thee can still restore,",
      "And sorrow unobserved may pour",
      "  The plaint she dare not speak before.",
      "",
      "Oh, pardon that in crowds awhile",
      "  I waste one thought I owe to thee,",
      "And self-condemned, appear to smile,",
      "  Unfaithful to thy memory:",
      "Nor deem that memory less dear,",
      "  That then I seem not to repine;",
      "I would not fools should overhear",
      "  One sigh that should be wholly _thine_.",
      "",
      "If not the Goblet pass unquaffed,",
      "  It is not drained to banish care;",
      "The cup must hold a deadlier draught",
      "  That brings a Lethe for despair.",
      "And could Oblivion set my soul",
      "  From all her troubled visions free,",
      "I'd dash to earth the sweetest bowl",
      "  That drowned a single thought of thee.",
      "",
      "For wert thou vanished from my mind,",
      "  Where could my vacant bosom turn?",
      "And who would then remain behind",
      "  To honour thine abandoned Urn?",
      "No, no--it is my sorrow's pride",
      "  That last dear duty to fulfil;",
      "Though all the world forget beside,",
      "  'Tis meet that I remember still.",
      "",
      "For well I know, that such had been",
      "  Thy gentle care for him, who now",
      "Unmourned shall quit this mortal scene,",
      "  Where none regarded him, but thou:",
      "And, oh! I feel in _that_ was given",
      "  A blessing never meant for me;",
      "Thou wert too like a dream of Heaven,",
      "  For earthly Love to merit thee."
    ],
    "linecount": "40"
  }
]