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 "title": "Julia",
 "ordinal": "Elegy XIII",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1635,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1635)",
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    "text": "Hark, news, O envy; thou shalt hear descried",
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   {
    "text": "My Julia; who as yet was ne’er envied.",
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   {
    "text": "To vomit gall in slander, swell her veins",
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   {
    "text": "With calumny, that hell itself disdains,",
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   {
    "text": "Is her continual practice; does her best,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To tear opinion e’en out of the breast",
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   {
    "text": "Of dearest friends, and⁠—which is worse than vile⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Sticks jealousy in wedlock; her own child",
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   {
    "text": "Scapes not the showers of envy. To repeat",
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   {
    "text": "The monstrous fashions how, were alive to eat",
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   {
    "text": "Dear reputation; would to God she were",
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   {
    "text": "But half so loth to act vice, as to hear",
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   {
    "text": "My mild reproof. Lived Mantuan now again",
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   {
    "text": "That female Mastix to limn with his pen,",
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   {
    "text": "This she Chimera that hath eyes of fire,",
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   {
    "text": "Burning with anger⁠—anger feeds desire⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Tongued like the night crow, whose ill boding cries",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give out for nothing but new injuries;",
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   {
    "text": "Her breath like to the juice in Taenarus,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That blasts the springs, though ne’er so prosperous;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her hands, I know not how, used more to spill",
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   {
    "text": "The food of others than herself to fill;",
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   {
    "text": "But O! her mind, that Orcus, which includes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Legions of mischief, countless multitudes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of formless curses, projects unmade up,",
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   {
    "text": "Abuses yet unfashion’d, thoughts corrupt,",
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   {
    "text": "Misshapen cavils, palpable untroths,",
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   {
    "text": "Inevitable errors, self-accusing loaths.",
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   {
    "text": "These, like those atoms swarming in the sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Throng in her bosom for creation.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I blush to give her half her due; yet say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No poison’s half so bad as Julia.",
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