[
  {
    "title": "Stars",
    "author": "Emily Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "Ah! why, because the dazzling sun",
      "Restored our Earth to joy,",
      "Have you departed, every one,",
      "And left a desert sky?",
      "",
      "All through the night, your glorious eyes",
      "Were gazing down in mine,",
      "And, with a full heart's thankful sighs,",
      "I blessed that watch divine.",
      "",
      "I was at peace, and drank your beams",
      "As they were life to me;",
      "And revelled in my changeful dreams,",
      "Like petrel on the sea.",
      "",
      "Thought followed thought, star followed star",
      "Through boundless regions on;",
      "While one sweet influence, near and far,",
      "Thrilled through, and proved us one!",
      "",
      "Why did the morning dawn to break",
      "So great, so pure a spell;",
      "And scorch with fire the tranquil cheek,",
      "Where your cool radiance fell?",
      "",
      "Blood-red, he rose, and arrow-straight,",
      "His fierce beams struck my brow;",
      "The soul of nature sprang, elate,",
      "But mine sank sad and low.",
      "",
      "My lids closed down, yet through their veil",
      "I saw him, blazinig, still,",
      "And steep in gold the misty dale,",
      "And flash upon the hill.",
      "",
      "I turned me to the pillow, then,",
      "To call back night, and see",
      "Your words of solemn light, again,",
      "Throb with my heart, and me!",
      "",
      "It would not do - the pillow glowed,",
      "And glowed both roof and floor;",
      "And birds sang loudly in the wood,",
      "And fresh winds shook the door;",
      "",
      "The curtains waved, the wakened flies",
      "Were murmuring round my room,",
      "Imprisoned there, till I should rise,",
      "And give them leave to roam.",
      "",
      "O stars, and dreams, and gentle night;",
      "O night and stars, return!",
      "And hide me from the hostile light",
      "That does not warm, but burn;",
      "",
      "That drains the blood of suffering men;",
      "Drinks tears, instead of dew;",
      "Let me sleep through his blinding reign,",
      "And only wake with you!"
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  },
  {
    "title": "Stars",
    "author": "Joyce Kilmer",
    "lines": [
      "(For the Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.)",
      "",
      "Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air,",
      "Are you errant strands of Lady Mary's hair?",
      "As she slits the cloudy veil and bends down through,",
      "Do you fall across her cheeks and over heaven too?",
      "Gay stars, little stars, you are little eyes,",
      "Eyes of baby angels playing in the skies.",
      "Now and then a winged child turns his merry face",
      "Down toward the spinning world -- what a funny place!",
      "Jesus Christ came from the Cross (Christ receive my soul!)",
      "In each perfect hand and foot there was a bloody hole.",
      "Four great iron spikes there were, red and never dry,",
      "Michael plucked them from the Cross and set them in the sky.",
      "Christ's Troop, Mary's Guard, God's own men,",
      "Draw your swords and strike at Hell and strike again.",
      "Every steel-born spark that flies where God's battles are,",
      "Flashes past the face of God, and is a star."
    ],
    "linecount": "17"
  }
]