[
  {
    "title": "'Twas a long Parting -- but the time",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "'Twas a long Parting -- but the time",
      "For Interview -- had Come --",
      "Before the Judgment Seat of God --",
      "The last -- and second time",
      "",
      "These Fleshless Lovers met --",
      "A Heaven in a Gaze --",
      "A Heaven of Heavens -- the Privilege",
      "Of one another's Eyes --",
      "",
      "No Lifetime -- on Them --",
      "Appareled as the new",
      "Unborn -- except They had beheld --",
      "Born infiniter -- now --",
      "",
      "Was Bridal -- e'er like This?",
      "A Paradise -- the Host --",
      "And Cherubim -- and Seraphim --",
      "The unobtrusive Guest --"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "Parting",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "THE Past is a strange land, most strange.",
      "Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall:",
      "If they do, they cannot hurt at all.",
      "Men of all kinds as equals range",
      "",
      "The soundless fields and streets of it.",
      "Pleasure and pain there have no sting,",
      "The perished self not suffering",
      "That lacks all blood and nerve and wit,",
      "",
      "And is in shadow-land a shade.",
      "Remembered joy and misery",
      "Bring joy to the joyous equally;",
      "Both sadden the sad. So memory made",
      "",
      "Parting to-day a double pain:",
      "First because it was parting; next",
      "Because the ill it ended vexed",
      "And mocked me from the Past again,",
      "",
      "Not as what had been remedied",
      "Had I gone on,--not that, oh no!",
      "But as itself no longer woe;",
      "Sighs, angry word and look and deed",
      "",
      "Being faded: rather a kind of bliss,",
      "For there spiritualized it lay",
      "In the perpetual yesterday",
      "That naught can stir or stain like this."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  },
  {
    "title": "On Parting",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left",
      "  Shall never part from mine,",
      "Till happier hours restore the gift",
      "  Untainted back to thine.",
      "",
      "Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,",
      "  An equal love may see:",
      "The tear that from thine eyelid streams",
      "  Can weep no change in me.",
      "",
      "I ask no pledge to make me blest",
      "  In gazing when alone;",
      "Nor one memorial for a breast,",
      "  Whose thoughts are all thine own.",
      "",
      "Nor need I write--to tell the tale",
      "  My pen were doubly weak:",
      "Oh! what can idle words avail,",
      "  Unless the heart could speak?",
      "",
      "By day or night, in weal or woe,",
      "  That heart, no longer free,",
      "Must bear the love it cannot show,",
      "  And silent ache for thee."
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  }
]