{"id":6854,"date":"2021-03-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2021-03-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T05:00:00","slug":"rock-me-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/rock-me-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Me to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1913-03-28\/ed-1\/seq-16\/\"><em>The Detroit Times, March 28, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Backward, turn backward, Oh time, in your flight;\n Make me a child again just for tonight!\n Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,\n Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;\n Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;\n Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.\n \n Backward, flow backward, Oh tide of the years!\n I am so weary of toil and of tears;\n Toil without recompense, tears all in vain\u2014\n Take them and give me my childhood again!\n I have grown weary of dust and decay,\n Weary of flinging my soul wealth away,\n Weary of sowing for others to reap\u2014\n Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.\n \n Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,\n Mother, Oh mother! My heart calls for you.\n Many a summer the grass has grown green,\n Blossomed and faded, our faces between\n Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain,\n Long I tonight for your presence again.\n Come from the silence so long and so deep\u2014\n Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Backward, turn backward, Oh time, in your flight;<br \/>\n Make me a child again just for tonight!<br \/>\n Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,<br \/>\n Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","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=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}