[
{
"author": "Ted Kooser",
"title": "Snow Fence",
"lines": [
"The red fence",
"takes the cold trail",
"north; no meat",
"on its ribs",
"but neither has it",
"much to carry."
]
},
{
"author": "Ezra Pound",
"title": "In a Station of the Metro",
"lines": [
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd:",
"Petals on a wet, black bough."
]
},
{
"author": "Robert Frost",
"title": "Nothing Gold Can Stay",
"lines": [
"Nature's first green is gold,",
"Her hardest hue to hold.",
"Her early leaf's a flower;",
"But only so an hour."
]
},
{
"author": "Matsuo Bashō",
"title": "The Old Pond",
"lines": [
"An old silent pond",
"A frog jumps into the pond—",
"Splash! Silence again."
]
},
{
"author": "Alfred, Lord Tennyson",
"title": "The Eagle",
"lines": [
"He clasps the crag with crooked hands;",
"Close to the sun in lonely lands,",
"Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.",
"",
"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;",
"He watches from his mountain walls,",
"And like a thunderbolt he falls."
]
},
{
"author": "Amir Khusrau",
"title": "He Visits My Town Once a Year",
"lines": [
"He visits my town once a year.",
"He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.",
"I spend all my money on him.",
"Who, girl, your man?",
"No, a mango"
]
},
{
"author": "Shel Silverstein",
"title": "Tell Me",
"lines": [
"Tell me I'm clever,",
"Tell me I'm kind,",
"Tell me I'm talented,",
"Tell me I'm cute,",
"Tell me I'm sensitive,",
"Graceful and wise,",
"Tell me I'm perfect-",
"But tell me the truth. "
]
},
{
"author": "Uejima Onitsura",
"title": "Untitled",
"lines": [
"Look, a nightingale",
"They have lighted on plum-trees",
"From antiquity."
]
}
]