[
  {
    "title": "No Romance sold unto",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "No Romance sold unto",
      "Could so enthrall a Man",
      "As the perusal of",
      "His Individual One --",
      "'Tis Fiction's -- When 'tis small enough",
      "To Credit -- 'Tisn't true!"
    ],
    "linecount": "6"
  },
  {
    "title": "Romance",
    "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
    "lines": [
      "I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight",
      "Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.",
      "I will make a palace fit for you and me,",
      "Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.",
      "",
      "I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,",
      "Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,",
      "And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white",
      "In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.",
      "",
      "And this shall be for music when no one else is near,",
      "The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!",
      "That only I remember, that only you admire,",
      "Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire."
    ],
    "linecount": "12"
  },
  {
    "title": "To Romance",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "Parent of golden dreams, Romance!",
      "  Auspicious Queen of childish joys,",
      "Who lead'st along, in airy dance,",
      "  Thy votive train of girls and boys;",
      "At length, in spells no longer bound,",
      "  I break the fetters of my youth;",
      "No more I tread thy mystic round,",
      "  But leave thy realms for those of Truth.",
      "",
      "And yet 'tis hard to quit the dreams",
      "  Which haunt the unsuspicious soul,",
      "Where every nymph a goddess seems,",
      "  Whose eyes through rays immortal roll;",
      "While Fancy holds her boundless reign,",
      "  And all assume a varied hue;",
      "When Virgins seem no longer vain,",
      "  And even Woman's smiles are true.",
      "",
      "And must we own thee, but a name,",
      "  And from thy hall of clouds descend?",
      "Nor find a Sylph in every dame,",
      "  A Pylades in every friend?",
      "But leave, at once, thy realms of air",
      "  To mingling bands of fairy elves;",
      "Confess that woman's false as fair,",
      "  And friends have feeling for--themselves?",
      "",
      "With shame, I own, I've felt thy sway;",
      "  Repentant, now thy reign is o'er;",
      "No more thy precepts I obey,",
      "  No more on fancied pinions soar;",
      "Fond fool! to love a sparkling eye,",
      "  And think that eye to truth was dear;",
      "To trust a passing wanton's sigh,",
      "And melt beneath a wanton's tear!",
      "",
      "Romance! disgusted with deceit,",
      "  Far from thy motley court I fly,",
      "Where Affectation holds her seat,",
      "  And sickly Sensibility;",
      "Whose silly tears can never flow",
      "  For any pangs excepting thine;",
      "Who turns aside from real woe,",
      "  To steep in dew thy gaudy shrine.",
      "",
      "Now join with sable Sympathy,",
      "  With cypress crown'd, array'd in weeds,",
      "Who heaves with thee her simple sigh,",
      "  Whose breast for every bosom bleeds;",
      "And call thy sylvan female choir,",
      "  To mourn a Swain for ever gone,",
      "Who once could glow with equal fire,",
      "  But bends not now before thy throne.",
      "",
      "Ye genial Nymphs, whose ready tears",
      "  On all occasions swiftly flow;",
      "Whose bosoms heave with fancied fears,",
      "  With fancied flames and phrenzy glow",
      "Say, will you mourn my absent name,",
      "  Apostate from your gentle train?",
      "An infant Bard, at least, may claim",
      "  From you a sympathetic strain.",
      "",
      "Adieu, fond race! a long adieu!",
      "  The hour of fate is hovering nigh;",
      "E'en now the gulf appears in view,",
      "  Where unlamented you must lie:",
      "Oblivion's blackening lake is seen,",
      "  Convuls'd by gales you cannot weather,",
      "Where you, and eke your gentle queen,",
      "  Alas! must perish altogether."
    ],
    "linecount": "64"
  },
  {
    "title": "Romance",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "Romance, who loves to nod and sing,",
      "With drowsy head and folded wing,",
      "Among the green leaves as they shake",
      "Far down within some shadowy lake,",
      "To me a painted paroquet",
      "Hath been--a most familiar bird--",
      "Taught me my alphabet to say--",
      "To lisp my very earliest word",
      "While in the wild wood I did lie,",
      "A child--with a most knowing eye.",
      "",
      "Of late, eternal Condor years",
      "So shake the very Heaven on high",
      "With tumult as they thunder by,",
      "I have no time for idle cares",
      "Though gazing on the unquiet sky.",
      "And when an hour with calmer wings",
      "Its down upon my spirit flings--",
      "That little time with lyre and rhyme",
      "To while away--forbidden things!",
      "My heart would feel to be a crime",
      "Unless it trembled with the strings."
    ],
    "linecount": "21"
  }
]