[
  {
    "title": "The words the happy say",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "The words the happy say",
      "Are paltry melody",
      "But those the silent feel",
      "Are beautiful --"
    ],
    "linecount": "4"
  },
  {
    "title": "On A Portrait Of Wordsworth",
    "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
    "lines": [
      "WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud",
      "Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind,",
      "Then break against the rock, and show behind",
      "The lowland valleys floating up to crowd",
      "The sense with beauty. He with forehead bowed",
      "And humble-lidded eyes, as one inclined",
      "Before the sovran thought of his own mind,",
      "And very meek with inspirations proud,",
      "Takes here his rightful place as poet-priest",
      "By the high altar, singing prayer and prayer",
      "",
      "To the higher Heavens. A noble vision free",
      "Our Haydon's hand has flung out from the mist:",
      "No portrait this, with Academic air !",
      "This is the poet and his poetry."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "By homely gift and hindered Words",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "By homely gift and hindered Words",
      "The human heart is told",
      "Of Nothing --",
      "\"Nothing\" is the force",
      "That renovates the World --"
    ],
    "linecount": "5"
  },
  {
    "title": "Last Words on Greece",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "WHAT are to me those honours or renown",
      "  Past or to come, a new-born people's cry?",
      "Albeit for such I could despise a crown",
      "  Of aught save laurel, or for such could die.",
      "I am a fool of passion, and a frown",
      "  Of thine to me is as an adder's eye.",
      "To the poor bird whose pinion fluttering down",
      "  Wafts unto death the breast it bore so high;",
      "Such is this maddening fascination grown,",
      "  So strong thy magic or so weak am I."
    ],
    "linecount": "10"
  },
  {
    "title": "Words",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "OUT of us all",
      "That make rhymes,",
      "Will you choose",
      "Sometimes--",
      "As the winds use",
      "A crack in a wall",
      "Or a drain,",
      "Their joy or their pain",
      "To whistle through--",
      "Choose me,",
      "You English words?",
      "",
      "I know you:",
      "You are light as dreams,",
      "Tough as oak,",
      "Precious as gold,",
      "As poppies and corn,",
      "Or an old cloak:",
      "Sweet as our birds",
      "To the ear,",
      "As the burnet rose",
      "In the heat",
      "Of Midsummer:",
      "Strange as the races",
      "Of dead and unborn:",
      "Strange and sweet",
      "Equally,",
      "And familiar,",
      "To the eye,",
      "As the dearest faces",
      "That a man knows,",
      "And as lost homes are:",
      "But though older far",
      "Than oldest yew,--",
      "As our hills are, old.--",
      "Worn new",
      "Again and again:",
      "Young as our streams",
      "After rain:",
      "And as dear",
      "As the earth which you prove",
      "That we love.",
      "",
      "Make me content",
      "With some sweetness",
      "From Wales",
      "Whose nightingales",
      "Have no wings,--",
      "From Wiltshire and Kent",
      "And Herefordshire,",
      "And the villages there,--",
      "From the names, and the things",
      "No less.",
      "",
      "Let me sometimes dance",
      "With you,",
      "Or climb",
      "Or stand perchance",
      "In ecstasy,",
      "Fixed and free",
      "In a rhyme,",
      "As poets do."
    ],
    "linecount": "59"
  },
  {
    "title": "To Wordsworth",
    "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
    "lines": [
      "Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know",
      "That things depart which never may return:",
      "Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow,",
      "Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.",
      "These common woes I feel. One loss is mine",
      "Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.",
      "Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shine",
      "On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:",
      "Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood",
      "Above the blind and battling multitude:",
      "In honoured poverty thy voice did weave",
      "Songs consecrate to truth and liberty,--",
      "Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,",
      "Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]