[
  {
    "title": "Sympathy",
    "author": "Emily Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "There should be no despair for you",
      "While nightly stars are burning,",
      "While evening pours its silent dew",
      "And sunshine gilds the morning.",
      "There should be no despair - though tears",
      "May flow down like a river:",
      "Are not the best beloved of years",
      "Around your heart forever?",
      "",
      "They weep - you weep - it must be so;",
      "Winds sigh as you are sighing,",
      "And Winter sheds his grief in snow",
      "Where Autumn's leaves are lying:",
      "Yet these revive, and from their fate",
      "Your fate cannot be parted,",
      "Then journey on, if not elate,",
      "Still, never broken-hearted!"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "Sympathy",
    "author": "Emma Lazarus",
    "lines": [
      "Therefore I dare reveal my private woe,",
      "The secret blots of my imperfect heart,",
      "Nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert,",
      "Nor beautify nor hide. For this I know,",
      "That even as I am, thou also art.",
      "Thou past heroic forms unmoved shalt go,",
      "To pause and bide with me, to whisper low:",
      "\"Not I alone am weak, not I apart",
      "Must suffer, struggle, conquer day by day.",
      "Here is my very cross by strangers borne,",
      "Here is my bosom-sin wherefrom I pray",
      "Hourly deliverance--this my rose, my thorn.",
      "This woman my soul's need can understand,",
      "Stretching o'er silent gulfs her sister hand.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "Sympathy",
    "author": "Paul Laurence Dunbar",
    "lines": [
      "I know what the caged bird feels, alas!",
      "When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;",
      "When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,",
      "And the river flows like a stream of glass;",
      "When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,",
      "And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--",
      "I know what the caged bird feels!",
      "",
      "I know why the caged bird beats his wing",
      "Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;",
      "For he must fly back to his perch and cling",
      "When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;",
      "And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars",
      "And they pulse again with a keener sting--",
      "I know why he beats his wing!",
      "",
      "I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,",
      "When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--",
      "When he beats his bars and he would be free;",
      "It is not a carol of joy or glee,",
      "But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,",
      "But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--",
      "I know why the caged bird sings!"
    ],
    "linecount": "21"
  }
]