[
  {
    "title": "A London Plane-Tree",
    "author": "Amy Levy",
    "lines": [
      "Green is the plane-tree in the square,",
      "The other trees are brown;",
      "They droop and pine for country air;",
      "The plane-tree loves the town.",
      "",
      "Here from my garret-pane, I mark",
      "The plane-tree bud and blow,",
      "Shed her recuperative bark,",
      "And spread her shade below.",
      "",
      "Among her branches, in and out,",
      "The city breezes play;",
      "The dun fog wraps her round about;",
      "Above, the smoke curls grey.",
      "",
      "Others the country take for choice,",
      "And hold the town in scorn;",
      "But she has listened to the voice",
      "On city breezes borne."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "London",
    "author": "William Blake",
    "lines": [
      "I wandered through each chartered street,",
      "  Near where the chartered Thames does flow,",
      "A mark in every face I meet,",
      "  Marks of weakness, marks of woe.",
      "",
      "In every cry of every man,",
      "  In every infant's cry of fear,",
      "In every voice, in every ban,",
      "  The mind-forged manacles I hear:",
      "",
      "How the chimney-sweeper's cry",
      "  Every blackening church appalls,",
      "And the hapless soldier's sigh",
      "  Runs in blood down palace-walls.",
      "",
      "But most, through midnight streets I hear",
      "  How the youthful harlot's curse",
      "Blasts the new-born infant's tear,",
      "  And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "On Leaving London for Wales",
    "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
    "lines": [
      "Hail to thee, Cambria! for the unfettered wind",
      "Which from thy wilds even now methinks I feel,",
      "Chasing the clouds that roll in wrath behind,",
      "And tightening the soul's laxest nerves to steel;",
      "True mountain Liberty alone may heal",
      "The pain which Custom's obduracies bring,",
      "And he who dares in fancy even to steal",
      "One draught from Snowdon's ever sacred spring",
      "Blots out the unholiest rede of worldly witnessing.",
      "",
      "And shall that soul, to selfish peace resigned,",
      "So soon forget the woe its fellows share?",
      "Can Snowdon's Lethe from the free-born mind",
      "So soon the page of injured penury tear?",
      "Does this fine mass of human passion dare",
      "To sleep, unhonouring the patriot's fall,",
      "Or life's sweet load in quietude to bear",
      "While millions famish even in Luxury's hall,",
      "And Tyranny, high raised, stern lowers on all?",
      "",
      "No, Cambria! never may thy matchless vales",
      "A heart so false to hope and virtue shield;",
      "Nor ever may thy spirit-breathing gales",
      "Waft freshness to the slaves who dare to yield.",
      "For me!...the weapon that I burn to wield",
      "I seek amid thy rocks to ruin hurled,",
      "That Reason's flag may over Freedom's field,",
      "Symbol of bloodless victory, wave unfurled,",
      "A meteor-sign of love effulgent o'er the world.",
      "",
      "...",
      "",
      "Do thou, wild Cambria, calm each struggling thought;",
      "Cast thy sweet veil of rocks and woods between,",
      "That by the soul to indignation wrought",
      "Mountains and dells be mingled with the scene;",
      "Let me forever be what I have been,",
      "But not forever at my needy door",
      "Let Misery linger speechless, pale and lean;",
      "I am the friend of the unfriended poor,--",
      "Let me not madly stain their righteous cause in gore."
    ],
    "linecount": "37"
  }
]