Gedichtsammlung

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  "data": [
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "14",
      "lines": [
        "I love thee, Baby! for thine own sweet sake;",
        "Those azure eyes, that faintly dimpled cheek,",
        "Thy tender frame, so eloquently weak,",
        "Love in the sternest heart of hate might wake;",
        "But more when o'er thy fitful slumber bending",
        "Thy mother folds thee to her wakeful heart,",
        "Whilst love and pity, in her glances blending,",
        "All that thy passive eyes can feel impart:",
        "More, when some feeble lineaments of her,",
        "Who bore thy weight beneath her spotless bosom,",
        "As with deep love I read thy face, recur,--",
        "More dear art thou, O fair and fragile blossom;",
        "Dearest when most thy tender traits express",
        "The image of thy mother's loveliness."
      ],
      "title": "To Ianthe"
    },
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "36",
      "lines": [
        "(As revised by Mr. C.D. Locock.)",
        "",
        "Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verse",
        "Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:",
        "",
        "(Two lines missing.)",
        "",
        "Who denies verse to Gallus? So, when thou",
        "Glidest beneath the green and purple gleam",
        "Of Syracusan waters, mayest thou flow",
        "Unmingled with the bitter Dorian dew!",
        "Begin, and whilst the goats are browsing now",
        "The soft leaves, in our song let us pursue",
        "The melancholy loves of Gallus. List!",
        "We sing not to the deaf: the wild woods knew",
        "His sufferings, and their echoes answer...",
        "Young Naiades, in what far woodlands wild",
        "Wandered ye, when unworthy love possessed",
        "Our Gallus? Nor where Pindus is up-piled,",
        "Nor where Parnassus' sacred mount, nor where",
        "Aonian Aganippe spreads its...",
        "",
        "(Three lines missing.)",
        "",
        "The laurels and the myrtle-copses dim,",
        "The pine-encircled mountain, Maenalus,",
        "The cold crags of Lycaeus weep for him.",
        "",
        "(Several lines missing.)",
        "",
        "'What madness is this, Gallus? thy heart's care,",
        "Lycoris, mid rude camps and Alpine snow,",
        "With willing step pursues another there.'",
        "",
        "(Some lines missing.)",
        "",
        "And Sylvan, crowned with rustic coronals,",
        "Came shaking in his speed the budding wands",
        "And heavy lilies which he bore: we knew",
        "Pan the Arcadian with....",
        "...and said,",
        "'Wilt thou not ever cease? Love cares not.",
        "The meadows with fresh streams, the bees with thyme,",
        "The goats with the green leaves of budding spring",
        "Are saturated not--nor Love with tears.'"
      ],
      "title": "The Same"
    },
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "40",
      "lines": [
        "It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky,",
        "Upon the cloudy mountain-peak supine;",
        "Below, far lands are seen tremblingly;",
        "Its horror and its beauty are divine.",
        "Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie",
        "Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine,",
        "Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath,",
        "The agonies of anguish and of death.",
        "",
        "Yet it is less the horror than the grace",
        "Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone,",
        "Whereon the lineaments of that dead face",
        "Are graven, till the characters be grown",
        "Into itself, and thought no more can trace;",
        "'Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown",
        "Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain,",
        "Which humanize and harmonize the strain.",
        "",
        "And from its head as from one body grow,",
        "As ... grass out of a watery rock,",
        "Hairs which are vipers, and they curl and flow",
        "And their long tangles in each other lock,",
        "And with unending involutions show",
        "Their mailed radiance, as it were to mock",
        "The torture and the death within, and saw",
        "The solid air with many a ragged jaw.",
        "",
        "And, from a stone beside, a poisonous eft",
        "Peeps idly into those Gorgonian eyes;",
        "Whilst in the air a ghastly bat, bereft",
        "Of sense, has flitted with a mad surprise",
        "Out of the cave this hideous light had cleft,",
        "And he comes hastening like a moth that hies",
        "After a taper; and the midnight sky",
        "Flares, a light more dread than obscurity.",
        "",
        "'Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror;",
        "For from the serpents gleams a brazen glare",
        "Kindled by that inextricable error,",
        "Which makes a thrilling vapour of the air",
        "Become a ... and ever-shifting mirror",
        "Of all the beauty and the terror there--",
        "A woman's countenance, with serpent-locks,",
        "Gazing in death on Heaven from those wet rocks."
      ],
      "title": "On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}