{"id":192,"date":"2006-02-03T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/03\/silent-poetry-reading\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:04:00","slug":"silent-poetry-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"(Silent) Poetry Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Brigid’s Feast Day and as seen on many another blog (including Grace’s Poppies<\/a>, who started it), a poem…<\/p>\n

Miniver Cheevy<\/b><\/p>\n

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
   Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
   And he had reasons.<\/p>\n

Miniver loved the days of old
   When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
   Would send him dancing.<\/p>\n

Miniver sighed for what was not,
   And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
   And Priam’s neighbors.<\/p>\n

Miniver mourned the ripe renown
   That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
   And Art, a vagrant.<\/p>\n

Miniver loved the Medici,
   Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
   Could he have been one.<\/p>\n

Miniver cursed the commonplace
   And eyed a khaki suit with loathing:
He missed the medieval grace
   Of iron clothing.<\/p>\n

Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
   But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
   And thought about it.<\/p>\n

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
   Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
   And kept on drinking.<\/p>\n

   — Edwin Arlington Robinson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Brigid’s Feast Day and as seen on many another blog (including Grace’s Poppies, who started it), a poem… Miniver Cheevy Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,   Grew lean while he assailed the seasonsHe wept that he was ever born,   And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}