{"id":606,"date":"2021-02-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2021-02-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:00:00","slug":"lovely-mary-donnelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lovely-mary-donnelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Mary Donnelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-02-17\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, February 17, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By William Allingham.<\/em>\n \n\n O lovely Mary Donnelly, it\u2019s you I love the best!\n If fifty girls were around you, I\u2019d hardly see the rest;\n Be what it may the time of day, the place be where it will,\n Sweet looks of Mary Donnelly, they bloom before me still.\n \n Oh, you\u2019re the flower of womankind, in country or in town;\n The higher I exalt you, the lower I\u2019m cast down.\n If some great lord should come this way and see your beauty bright,\n And ask you to be his lady, I\u2019d own it was but right.\n \n Oh, might we live together in lofty palace hall\n Where joyful music rises, and where scarlet curtains fall!\n Oh, might we live together in a cottage mean and small,\n With sods of grass the only roof, and mud the only wall!\n \n O lovely Mary Donnelly, your beauty\u2019s my distress\u2014\n It\u2019s far too beauteous to be mine, but I\u2019ll never wish it less;\n The proudest place would fit your face, and I am poor and low\n But blessings be about you, dear, wherever you may go!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age-Herald, February 17, 1913. By William Allingham. O lovely Mary Donnelly, it\u2019s you I love the best! If fifty girls were around you, I\u2019d hardly see the rest; Be what it may the time of day, the place be where it will, Sweet looks of Mary Donnelly, they bloom before me still. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-william-allingham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}