[
  {
    "title": "The Tower of Famine",
    "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
    "lines": [
      "Amid the desolation of a city,",
      "Which was the cradle, and is now the grave",
      "Of an extinguished people,--so that Pity",
      "",
      "Weeps o'er the shipwrecks of Oblivion's wave,",
      "There stands the Tower of Famine. It is built",
      "Upon some prison-homes, whose dwellers rave",
      "",
      "For bread, and gold, and blood: Pain, linked to Guilt,",
      "Agitates the light flame of their hours,",
      "Until its vital oil is spent or spilt.",
      "",
      "There stands the pile, a tower amid the towers",
      "And sacred domes; each marble-ribbed roof,",
      "The brazen-gated temples, and the bowers",
      "",
      "Of solitary wealth,--the tempest-proof",
      "Pavilions of the dark Italian air,--",
      "Are by its presence dimmed--they stand aloof,",
      "",
      "And are withdrawn--so that the world is bare;",
      "As if a spectre wrapped in shapeless terror",
      "Amid a company of ladies fair",
      "",
      "Should glide and glow, till it became a mirror",
      "Of all their beauty, and their hair and hue,",
      "The life of their sweet eyes, with all its error,",
      "Should be absorbed, till they to marble grew."
    ],
    "linecount": "22"
  }
]