[
  {
    "title": "Modern Love III: This Was the Woman",
    "author": "George Meredith",
    "lines": [
      "This was the woman; what now of the man?",
      "But pass him. If he comes beneath a heel,",
      "He shall be crushed until he cannot feel,",
      "Or, being callous, haply till he can.",
      "But he is nothing:--nothing? Only mark",
      "The rich light striking out from her on him!",
      "Ha! what a sense it is when her eyes swim",
      "Across the man she singles, leaving dark",
      "All else! Lord God, who mad'st the thing so fair,",
      "See that I am drawn to her even now!",
      "It cannot be such harm on her cool brow",
      "To put a kiss? Yet if I meet him there!",
      "But she is mine! Ah, no! I know too well",
      "I claim a star whose light is overcast:",
      "I claim a phantom-woman in the Past.",
      "The hour has struck, though I heard not the bell!"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]