[
  {
    "title": "The Reaper and the Flowers",
    "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
    "lines": [
      "There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,",
      "And, with his sickle keen,",
      "He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,",
      "And the flowers that grow between.",
      "",
      "\"Shall I have naught that is fair?\" saith he;",
      "\"Have naught but the bearded grain?",
      "Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,",
      "I will give them all back again.\"",
      "",
      "He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,",
      "He kissed their drooping leaves;",
      "It was for the Lord of Paradise",
      "He bound them in his sheaves.",
      "",
      "\"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,\"",
      "The Reaper said, and smiled;",
      "\"Dear tokens of the earth are they,",
      "Where he was once a child.",
      "",
      "\"They shall all bloom in fields of light,",
      "Transplanted by my care,",
      "And saints, upon their garments white,",
      "These sacred blossoms wear.\"",
      "",
      "And the mother gave, in tears and pain,",
      "The flowers she most did love;",
      "She knew she should find them all again",
      "In the fields of light above.",
      "",
      "O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,",
      "The Reaper came that day;",
      "'T was an angel visited the green earth,",
      "And took the flowers away."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Flowers",
    "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
    "lines": [
      "All the names I know from nurse:",
      "Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,",
      "Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,",
      "And the Lady Hollyhock.",
      "",
      "Fairy places, fairy things,",
      "Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,",
      "Tiny trees for tiny dames--",
      "These must all be fairy names!",
      "",
      "Tiny woods below whose boughs",
      "Shady fairies weave a house;",
      "Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,",
      "Where the braver fairies climb!",
      "",
      "Fair are grown-up people's trees,",
      "But the fairest woods are these;",
      "Where, if I were not so tall,",
      "I should live for good and all."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Death of the Flowers",
    "author": "William Cullen Bryant",
    "lines": [
      "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,",
      "Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.",
      "Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;",
      "They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread;",
      "The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay,",
      "And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.",
      "",
      "Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood",
      "In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?",
      "Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers",
      "Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours.",
      "The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain",
      "Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.",
      "",
      "The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,",
      "And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;",
      "But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,",
      "And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood,",
      "Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,",
      "And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.",
      "",
      "And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come,",
      "To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home;",
      "When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still,",
      "And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill,",
      "The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,",
      "And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.",
      "",
      "And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died,",
      "The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side.",
      "In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leaf,",
      "And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief:",
      "Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours,",
      "So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers."
    ],
    "linecount": "30"
  }
]