[
  {
    "title": "Sonnet XXVI: I Ever Love",
    "author": "Michael Drayton",
    "lines": [
      "To Despair",
      "",
      "I ever love where never hope appears,",
      "Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care,",
      "And my life's hope would die, but for despair;",
      "My never-certain joy breeds ever-certain fears;",
      "Uncertain dread gives wings unto my hope,",
      "Yet my hope's wings are laden so with fear",
      "As they cannot ascend to my hope's sphere;",
      "Though fear gives them more than a heav'nly scope,",
      "Yet this large room is bounded with despair;",
      "So my love is still fetter'd with vain hope,",
      "And liberty deprives him of his scope,",
      "And thus am I imprison'd in the air.",
      "Then, sweet despair, awhile hold up thy head,",
      "Or all my hope for sorrow will be dead."
    ],
    "linecount": "15"
  }
]