[
  {
    "title": "A Calendar of Sonnets: July",
    "author": "Helen Hunt Jackson",
    "lines": [
      "Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;",
      "The garden reeks with an East Indian scent",
      "From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent;",
      "The white heat pales the skies from side to side;",
      "But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content,",
      "Like starry blooms on a new firmament,",
      "White lilies float and regally abide.",
      "In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed;",
      "The lily does not feel their brazen glare.",
      "In vain the pallid clouds refuse to share",
      "Their dews, the lily feels no thirst, no dread.",
      "Unharmed she lifts her queenly face and head;",
      "She drinks of living waters and keeps fair."
    ],
    "linecount": "13"
  },
  {
    "title": "On My Birthday, July 21",
    "author": "Matthew Prior",
    "lines": [
      "I, MY dear, was born to-day--",
      "So all my jolly comrades say:",
      "They bring me music, wreaths, and mirth,",
      "And ask to celebrate my birth:",
      "Little, alas! my comrades know",
      "That I was born to pain and woe;",
      "To thy denial, to thy scorn,",
      "Better I had ne'er been born:",
      "I wish to die, even whilst I say--",
      "'I, my dear, was born to-day.'",
      "I, my dear, was born to-day:",
      "Shall I salute the rising ray,",
      "Well-spring of all my joy and woe?",
      "Clotilda, thou alone dost know.",
      "Shall the wreath surround my hair?",
      "Or shall the music please my ear?",
      "Shall I my comrades' mirth receive,",
      "And bless my birth, and wish to live?",
      "Then let me see great Venus chase",
      "Imperious anger from thy face;",
      "Then let me hear thee smiling say--",
      "'Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.'"
    ],
    "linecount": "22"
  },
  {
    "title": "July",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "NAUGHT moves but clouds, and in the glassy lake",
      "Their doubles and the shadow of my boat.",
      "The boat itself stirs only when I break",
      "This drowse of heat and solitude afloat",
      "To prove if what I see be bird or mote,",
      "Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake.",
      "",
      "Long hours since dawn grew,--spread,--and passed",
      "    on high",
      "And deep below,--I have watched the cool reeds",
      "    hung",
      "Over images more cool in imaged sky:",
      "Nothing there was worth thinking of so long;",
      "All that the ring-doves say, far leaves among,",
      "Brims my mind with content thus still to lie."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]