Diktsamling

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  "data": [
    {
      "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
      "line_count": "82",
      "lines": [
        "I had a dream, which was not all a dream.",
        "The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars",
        "Did wander darkling in the eternal space,",
        "Rayless, and pathless, and the icy Earth",
        "Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;",
        "Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day,",
        "And men forgot their passions in the dread",
        "Of this their desolation; and all hearts",
        "Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light:",
        "And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones,",
        "The palaces of crownéd kings--the huts,",
        "The habitations of all things which dwell,",
        "Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed,",
        "And men were gathered round their blazing homes",
        "To look once more into each other's face;",
        "Happy were those who dwelt within the eye",
        "Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:",
        "A fearful hope was all the World contained;",
        "Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour",
        "They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks",
        "Extinguished with a crash--and all was black.",
        "The brows of men by the despairing light",
        "Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits",
        "The flashes fell upon them; some lay down",
        "And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest",
        "Their chins upon their clenchéd hands, and smiled;",
        "And others hurried to and fro, and fed",
        "Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up",
        "With mad disquietude on the dull sky,",
        "The pall of a past World; and then again",
        "With curses cast them down upon the dust,",
        "And gnashed their teeth and howled: the wild birds shrieked,",
        "And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,",
        "And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes",
        "Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawled",
        "And twined themselves among the multitude,",
        "Hissing, but stingless--they were slain for food:",
        "And War, which for a moment was no more,",
        "Did glut himself again:--a meal was bought",
        "With blood, and each sate sullenly apart",
        "Gorging himself in gloom: no Love was left;",
        "All earth was but one thought--and that was Death,",
        "Immediate and inglorious; and the pang",
        "Of famine fed upon all entrails--men",
        "Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;",
        "The meagre by the meagre were devoured,",
        "Even dogs assailed their masters, all save one,",
        "And he was faithful to a corse, and kept",
        "The birds and beasts and famished men at bay,",
        "Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead",
        "Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,",
        "But with a piteous and perpetual moan,",
        "And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand",
        "Which answered not with a caress--he died.",
        "The crowd was famished by degrees; but two",
        "Of an enormous city did survive,",
        "And they were enemies: they met beside",
        "The dying embers of an altar-place",
        "Where had been heaped a mass of holy things",
        "For an unholy usage; they raked up,",
        "And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands",
        "The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath",
        "Blew for a little life, and made a flame",
        "Which was a mockery; then they lifted up",
        "Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld",
        "Each other's aspects--saw, and shrieked, and died--",
        "Even of their mutual hideousness they died,",
        "Unknowing who he was upon whose brow",
        "Famine had written Fiend. The World was void,",
        "The populous and the powerful was a lump,",
        "Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless--",
        "A lump of death--a chaos of hard clay.",
        "The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still,",
        "And nothing stirred within their silent depths;",
        "Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,",
        "And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped",
        "They slept on the abyss without a surge--",
        "The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,",
        "The Moon, their mistress, had expired before;",
        "The winds were withered in the stagnant air,",
        "And the clouds perished; Darkness had no need",
        "Of aid from them--She was the Universe."
      ],
      "title": "Darkness"
    },
    {
      "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
      "line_count": "8",
      "lines": [
        "When, from the heart where Sorrow sits,",
        "  Her dusky shadow mounts too high,",
        "And o'er the changing aspect flits,",
        "  And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;",
        "Heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink:",
        "  My Thoughts their dungeon know too well;",
        "Back to my breast the Wanderers shrink,",
        "  And _droop_ within their silent cell."
      ],
      "title": "Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend"
    },
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "14",
      "lines": [
        "Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even",
        "Silently takest thine aethereal way,",
        "And with surpassing glory dimm'st each ray",
        "Twinkling amid the dark blue depths of Heaven,--",
        "Unlike the fire thou bearest, soon shalt thou",
        "Fade like a meteor in surrounding gloom,",
        "Whilst that, unquenchable, is doomed to glow",
        "A watch-light by the patriot's lonely tomb;",
        "A ray of courage to the oppressed and poor;",
        "A spark, though gleaming on the hovel's hearth,",
        "Which through the tyrant's gilded domes shall roar;",
        "A beacon in the darkness of the Earth;",
        "A sun which, o'er the renovated scene,",
        "Shall dart like Truth where Falsehood yet has been."
      ],
      "title": "Sonnet.  to a Balloon Laden With Knowledge"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}