[
  {
    "title": "Modern Love XXIII: 'Tis Christmas Weather",
    "author": "George Meredith",
    "lines": [
      "'Tis Christmas weather, and a country house",
      "Receives us: rooms are full: we can but get",
      "An attic-crib. Such lovers will not fret",
      "At that, it is half-said. The great carouse",
      "Knocks hard upon the midnight's hollow door,",
      "But when I knock at hers, I see the pit.",
      "Why did I come here in that dullard fit?",
      "I enter, and lie couched upon the floor.",
      "Passing, I caught the coverlet's quick beat:--",
      "Come, Shame, burn to my soul! and Pride, and Pain--",
      "Foul demons that have tortured me, enchain!",
      "Out in the freezing darkness the lambs bleat.",
      "The small bird stiffens in the low starlight.",
      "I know not how, but shuddering as I slept,",
      "I dreamed a banished angel to me crept:",
      "My feet were nourished on her breasts all night."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]