[
  {
    "title": "Had I presumed to hope --",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "Had I presumed to hope --",
      "The loss had been to Me",
      "A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake --",
      "As Giants -- gone away --",
      "",
      "Had I presumed to gain",
      "A Favor so remote --",
      "The failure but confirm the Grace",
      "In further Infinite --",
      "",
      "'Tis failure -- not of Hope --",
      "But Confident Despair --",
      "Advancing on Celestial Lists --",
      "With faint -- Terrestial power --",
      "",
      "'Tis Honor -- though I die --",
      "For That no Man obtain",
      "Till He be justified by Death --",
      "This -- is the Second Gain --"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "Somewhat, to hope for,",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "Somewhat, to hope for,",
      "Be it ne'er so far",
      "Is Capital against Despair --",
      "",
      "Somewhat, to suffer,",
      "Be it ne'er so keen --",
      "If terminable, may be borne."
    ],
    "linecount": "6"
  },
  {
    "title": "To Hope",
    "author": "John Keats",
    "lines": [
      "When by my solitary hearth I sit,",
      "      And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;",
      "When no fair dreams before my \"mind's eye\" flit,",
      "      And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;",
      "            Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,",
      "            And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head!",
      "",
      "Whene'er I wander, at the fall of night,",
      "      Where woven boughs shut out the moon's bright ray,",
      "Should sad Despondency my musings fright,",
      "      And frown, to drive fair Cheerfulness away,",
      "            Peep with the moonbeams through the leafy roof,",
      "            And keep that fiend Despondence far aloof!",
      "",
      "Should Disappointment, parent of Despair,",
      "      Strive for her son to seize my careless heart;",
      "When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air,",
      "      Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart:",
      "            Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright,",
      "            And fright him as the morning frightens night!",
      "",
      "Whene'er the fate of those I hold most dear",
      "      Tells to my fearful breast a tale of sorrow,",
      "O bright-eyed Hope, my morbidfancy cheer;",
      "      Let me awhile thy sweetest comforts borrow:",
      "            Thy heaven-born radiance around me shed,",
      "            And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head!",
      "",
      "Should e'er unhappy love my bosom pain,",
      "      From cruel parents, or relentless fair;",
      "O let me think it is not quite in vain",
      "      To sigh out sonnets to the midnight air!",
      "            Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,",
      "            And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head!",
      "",
      "In the long vista of the years to roll,",
      "      Let me not see our country's honour fade:",
      "O let me see our land retain her soul,",
      "      Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom's shade.",
      "            From thy bright eyes unusual brightness shed---",
      "            Beneath thy pinions canopy my head!",
      "",
      "Let me not see the patriot's high bequest,",
      "      Great Liberty! how great in plain attire!",
      "With the base purple of a court oppress'd,",
      "      Bowing her head, and ready to expire:",
      "            But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings",
      "            That fill the skies with silver glitterings!",
      "",
      "And as, in sparkling majesty, a star",
      "      Gilds the bright summit of some gloomy cloud;",
      "Brightening the half veil'd face of heaven afar:",
      "      So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,",
      "            Sweet Hope, celestial influence round me shed,",
      "            Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head!"
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]