[
  {
    "title": "When We Two Parted",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "When we two parted",
      "  In silence and tears,",
      "Half broken-hearted",
      "  To sever for years,",
      "Pale grew thy cheek and cold,",
      "  Colder thy kiss;",
      "Truly that hour foretold",
      "  Sorrow to this.",
      "",
      "The dew of the morning",
      "  Sunk chill on my brow--",
      "It felt like the warning",
      "  Of what I feel now.",
      "Thy vows are all broken,",
      "  And light is thy fame:",
      "I hear thy name spoken,",
      "  And share in its shame.",
      "",
      "They name thee before me,",
      "  A knell to mine ear;",
      "A shudder comes o'er me--",
      "  Why wert thou so dear?",
      "They know not I knew thee,",
      "  Who knew thee too well:--",
      "Long, long shall I rue thee,",
      "  Too deeply to tell.",
      "",
      "In secret we met--",
      "  In silence I grieve.",
      "That thy heart could forget,",
      "  Thy spirit deceive.",
      "If I should meet thee",
      "  After long years,",
      "How should I greet thee?--",
      "  With silence and tears.",
      "",
      "I cannot talk of Love to thee,",
      "  Though thou art young and free and fair!",
      "There is a spell thou dost not see,",
      "  That bids a genuine love despair.",
      "",
      "And yet that spell invites each youth,",
      "  For thee to sigh, or seem to sigh;",
      "Makes falsehood wear the garb of truth,",
      "  And Truth itself appear a lie.",
      "",
      "If ever Doubt a place possest",
      "  In woman's heart, 'twere wise in thine:",
      "Admit not Love into thy breast,",
      "  Doubt others' love, nor trust in mine.",
      "",
      "Perchance 'tis feigned, perchance sincere,",
      "  But false or true thou canst not tell;",
      "So much hast thou from all to fear,",
      "  In that unconquerable spell.",
      "",
      "Of all the herd that throng around,",
      "  Thy simpering or thy sighing train,",
      "Come tell me who to thee is bound",
      "  By Love's or Plutus' heavier chain.",
      "",
      "In some 'tis Nature, some 'tis Art",
      "  That bids them worship at thy shrine;",
      "But thou deserv'st a better heart,",
      "  Than they or I can give for thine.",
      "",
      "For thee, and such as thee, behold,",
      "  Is Fortune painted truly--blind!",
      "Who doomed thee to be bought or sold,",
      "  Has proved too bounteous to be kind.",
      "",
      "Each day some tempter's crafty suit",
      "  Would woo thee to a loveless bed:",
      "I see thee to the altar's foot",
      "  A decorated victim led.",
      "",
      "Adieu, dear maid! I must not speak",
      "  Whate'er my secret thoughts may be;",
      "Though thou art all that man can reck",
      "  I dare not talk of Love to _thee_."
    ],
    "linecount": "68"
  }
]