Poetry Collection

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  "data": [
    {
      "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes",
      "line_count": "36",
      "lines": [
        "SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,--",
        "Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side!",
        "She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow,",
        "And turned on her brother the face of a foe!",
        "",
        "Oh, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,",
        "We can never forget that our hearts have been one,--",
        "Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty's name,",
        "From the fountain of blood with the finger of flame!",
        "",
        "You were always too ready to fire at a touch;",
        "But we said, \"She is hasty,-- she does not mean much.\"",
        "We have scowled, when you uttered some turbulent threat;",
        "But Friendship still whispered, \"Forgive and forget!\"",
        "",
        "Has our love all died out? Have its altars grown cold?",
        "Has the curse come at last which the fathers foretold?",
        "Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain",
        "That her petulant children would sever in vain.",
        "",
        "They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their spoil,",
        "Till the harvest grows black as it rots in the soil,",
        "Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves,",
        "And the shark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves:",
        "",
        "In vain is the strife! When its fury is past,",
        "Their fortunes must flow in one channel at last,",
        "As the torrents that rush from the mountains of snow",
        "Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below.",
        "",
        "Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:",
        "Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!",
        "Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,",
        "The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!",
        "",
        "Oh, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,",
        "There are battles with Fate that can never be won!",
        "The star-flowering banner must never be furled,",
        "For its blossoms of light are the hope of the world!",
        "",
        "Go, then, our rash sister! afar and aloof,",
        "Run wild in the sunshine away from our roof;",
        "But when your heart aches and your feet have grown sore,",
        "Remember the pathway that leads to our door!"
      ],
      "title": "Brother Jonathan's Lament"
    },
    {
      "author": "Edward Thomas",
      "line_count": "22",
      "lines": [
        "RUNNING along a bank, a parapet",
        "That saves from the precipitous wood below",
        "The level road, there is a path. It serves",
        "Children for looking down the long smooth steep,",
        "Between the legs of beech and yew, to where",
        "A fallen tree checks the sight: while men and women",
        "Content themselves with the road and what they see",
        "Over the bank, and what the children tell.",
        "The path, winding like silver, trickles on,",
        "Bordered and even invaded by thinnest moss",
        "That tries to cover roots and crumbling chalk",
        "With gold, olive, and emerald, but in vain.",
        "The children wear it. They have flattened the bank",
        "On top, and silvered it between the moss",
        "With the current of their feet, year after year.",
        "But the road is houseless, and leads not to school.",
        "To see a child is rare there, and the eye",
        "Has but the road, the wood that overhangs",
        "And underyawns it, and the path that looks",
        "As if it led on to some legendary",
        "Or fancied place where men have wished to go",
        "And stay; till, sudden, it ends where the wood ends."
      ],
      "title": "The Path"
    },
    {
      "author": "Robert Burns",
      "line_count": "32",
      "lines": [
        "WILLIE WASTLE dwalt on Tweed,",
        "  The spot they ca’d it Linkumdoddie;",
        "Willie was a wabster gude,",
        "  Could stown a clue wi’ ony body:",
        "He had a wife was dour and din,",
        "  O Tinkler Maidgie was her mither;",
        "Sic a wife as Willie had,",
        "  I wad na gie a button for her!",
        "",
        "",
        "She has an e’e, she has but ane,",
        "  The cat has twa the very colour;",
        "Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,",
        "  A clapper tongue wad deave a miller:",
        "A whiskin beard about her mou’,",
        "  Her nose and chin they threaten ither;",
        "Sic a wife as Willie had,",
        "  I wadna gie a button for her!",
        "",
        "",
        "She’s bow-hough’d, she’s hein-shin’d,",
        "  Ae limpin leg a hand-breed shorter;",
        "She’s twisted right, she’s twisted left,",
        "  To balance fair in ilka quarter:",
        "She has a lump upon her breast,",
        "  The twin o’ that upon her shouther;",
        "Sic a wife as Willie had,",
        "  I wadna gie a button for her!",
        "",
        "",
        "Auld baudrons by the ingle sits,",
        "  An’ wi’ her loof her face a-washin;",
        "But Willie’s wife is nae sae trig,",
        "  She dights her grunzie wi’ a hushion;",
        "Her walie nieves like midden-creels,",
        "  Her face wad fyle the Logan Water;",
        "Sic a wife as Willie had,",
        "  I wadna gie a button for her!"
      ],
      "title": "370. Song—Sic a Wife as Willie had"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}