Коллекция стихов

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  "data": [
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "65",
      "lines": [
        "'Ah! quit me not yet, for the wind whistles shrill,",
        "Its blast wanders mournfully over the hill,",
        "The thunder's wild voice rattles madly above,",
        "You will not then, cannot then, leave me my love.--'",
        "",
        "I must dearest Agnes, the night is far gone--",
        "I must wander this evening to Strasburg alone,",
        "I must seek the drear tomb of my ancestors' bones,",
        "And must dig their remains from beneath the cold stones.",
        "",
        "'For the spirit of Conrad there meets me this night,",
        "And we quit not the tomb 'till dawn of the light,",
        "And Conrad's been dead just a month and a day!",
        "So farewell dearest Agnes for I must away,--",
        "",
        "'He bid me bring with me what most I held dear,",
        "Or a month from that time should I lie on my bier,",
        "And I'd sooner resign this false fluttering breath,",
        "Than my Agnes should dread either danger or death,",
        "",
        "'And I love you to madness my Agnes I love,",
        "My constant affection this night will I prove,",
        "This night will I go to the sepulchre's jaw",
        "Alone will I glut its all conquering maw'--",
        "",
        "'No! no loved Adolphus thy Agnes will share,",
        "In the tomb all the dangers that wait for you there,",
        "I fear not the spirit,--I fear not the grave,",
        "My dearest Adolphus I'd perish to save'--",
        "",
        "'Nay seek not to say that thy love shall not go,",
        "But spare me those ages of horror and woe,",
        "For I swear to thee here that I'll perish ere day,",
        "If you go unattended by Agnes away'--",
        "",
        "The night it was bleak the fierce storm raged around,",
        "The lightning's blue fire-light flashed on the ground,",
        "Strange forms seemed to flit,--and howl tidings of fate,",
        "As Agnes advanced to the sepulchre gate.--",
        "",
        "The youth struck the portal,--the echoing sound",
        "Was fearfully rolled midst the tombstones around,",
        "The blue lightning gleamed o'er the dark chapel spire,",
        "And tinged were the storm clouds with sulphurous fire.",
        "",
        "Still they gazed on the tombstone where Conrad reclined,",
        "Yet they shrank at the cold chilling blast of the wind,",
        "When a strange silver brilliance pervaded the scene,",
        "And a figure advanced--tall in form--fierce in mien.",
        "",
        "A mantle encircled his shadowy form,",
        "As light as a gossamer borne on the storm,",
        "Celestial terror sat throned in his gaze,",
        "Like the midnight pestiferous meteor's blaze.--",
        "",
        "SPIRIT:",
        "Thy father, Adolphus! was false, false as hell,",
        "And Conrad has cause to remember it well,",
        "He ruined my Mother, despised me his son,",
        "I quitted the world ere my vengeance was done.",
        "",
        "I was nearly expiring--'twas close of the day,--",
        "A demon advanced to the bed where I lay,",
        "He gave me the power from whence I was hurled,",
        "To return to revenge, to return to the world,--",
        "",
        "Now Adolphus I'll seize thy best loved in my arms,",
        "I'll drag her to Hades all blooming in charms,",
        "On the black whirlwind's thundering pinion I'll ride,",
        "And fierce yelling fiends shall exult o'er thy bride--",
        "",
        "He spoke, and extending his ghastly arms wide,",
        "Majestic advanced with a swift noiseless stride,",
        "He clasped the fair Agnes--he raised her on high,",
        "And cleaving the roof sped his way to the sky--",
        "",
        "All was now silent,--and over the tomb,",
        "Thicker, deeper, was swiftly extended a gloom,",
        "Adolphus in horror sank down on the stone,",
        "And his fleeting soul fled with a harrowing groan."
      ],
      "title": "Revenge"
    },
    {
      "author": "Robert Browning",
      "line_count": "60",
      "lines": [
        "I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;",
        "I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;",
        "\"Good speed!\" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;",
        "\"Speed!\" echoed the wall to us galloping through;",
        "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,",
        "And into the midnight we galloped abreast.",
        "",
        "Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace",
        "Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place;",
        "I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight,",
        "Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right,",
        "Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit,",
        "Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.",
        "",
        "'Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near",
        "Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear:",
        "At Boom, a great yellow star came out to see;",
        "At Düffeld, 'twas morning as plain as could be;",
        "And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half-chime,",
        "So, Joris broke silence with, \"Yet there is time!\"",
        "",
        "At Aershot up leaped of a sudden the sun,",
        "And against him the cattle stood black every one,",
        "To stare through the mist at us galloping past,",
        "And I saw my stout galloper Roland, at last,",
        "With resolute shoulders, each butting away",
        "The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray:",
        "",
        "And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back",
        "For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track;",
        "And one eye's black intelligence,--ever that glance",
        "O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance!",
        "And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon",
        "His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on.",
        "",
        "By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, \"Stay spur!",
        "Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her,",
        "We'll remember at Aix\"--for one heard the quick wheeze",
        "Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,",
        "And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank,",
        "As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.",
        "",
        "So, we were left galloping, Joris and I,",
        "Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky;",
        "The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh,",
        "'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff;",
        "Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white,",
        "And \"Gallop,\" gasped Joris, \"for Aix is in sight!\"",
        "",
        "\"How they'll greet us!\"--and all in a moment his roan",
        "Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone;",
        "And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight",
        "Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,",
        "With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,",
        "And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim.",
        "",
        "Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall,",
        "Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,",
        "Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,",
        "Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer;",
        "Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good,",
        "Till at length, into Aix Roland galloped and stood.",
        "",
        "And all I remember is,--friends flocking round",
        "As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground;",
        "And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine,",
        "As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine,",
        "Which (the burgesses voted by common consent)",
        "Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent."
      ],
      "title": "How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix"
    },
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "15",
      "lines": [
        "Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome scene",
        "Through fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,",
        "Spanglet of light on evening's shadowy veil,",
        "Which shrouds the day-beam from the waveless lake,",
        "Lighting the hour of sacred love; more sweet",
        "Than the expiring morn-star's paly fires:--",
        "Sweet star! When wearied Nature sinks to sleep,",
        "And all is hushed,--all, save the voice of Love,",
        "Whose broken murmurings swell the balmy blast",
        "Of soft Favonius, which at intervals",
        "Sighs in the ear of stillness, art thou aught but",
        "Lulling the slaves of interest to repose",
        "With that mild, pitying gaze? Oh, I would look",
        "In thy dear beam till every bond of sense",
        "Became enamoured--"
      ],
      "title": "To a Star"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}