[
  {
    "title": "Sonnet LXII: When First I Ended",
    "author": "Michael Drayton",
    "lines": [
      "When first I ended, then I first began,",
      "The more I travell'd, further from my rest,",
      "Where most I lost, there most of all I wan,",
      "Pined with hunger rising from a feast.",
      "Methinks I fly, yet want I legs to go,",
      "Wise in conceit, in act a very sot,",
      "Ravish'd with joy amid a hell of woe;",
      "What most I seem, that surest am I not.",
      "I build my hopes a world above the sky,",
      "Yet with the mole I creep into the earth;",
      "In plenty I am starv'd with penury,",
      "And yet I surfeit in the greatest dearth.",
      "I have, I want, despair and yet desire,",
      "Burn'd in a sea of ice and drown'd amidst a fire."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "When First",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "WHEN first I came here I had hope,",
      "Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat",
      "My heart at sight of the tall slope",
      "Or grass and yews, as if my feet",
      "",
      "Only by scaling its steps of chalk",
      "Would see something no other hill",
      "Ever disclosed. And now I walk",
      "Down it the last time. Never will",
      "",
      "My heart beat so again at sight",
      "Of any hill although as fair",
      "And loftier. For infinite",
      "The change, late unperceived, this year,",
      "",
      "The twelfth, suddenly, shows me plain.",
      "Hope now,--not health, nor cheerfulness,",
      "Since they can come and go again,",
      "As often one brief hour witnesses,--",
      "",
      "Just hope has gone for ever. Perhaps",
      "I may love other hills yet more",
      "Than this: the future and the maps",
      "Hide something I was waiting for.",
      "",
      "One thing I know, that love with chance",
      "And use and time and necessity",
      "Will grow, and louder the heart's dance",
      "At parting than at meeting be."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]