{"id":7027,"date":"2021-04-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2021-04-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:00:00","slug":"the-time-ive-lost-in-wooing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-time-ive-lost-in-wooing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time I&#8217;ve Lost in Wooing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-04-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, April 4, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Thomas Moore.<\/em>\n \n\n The time I\u2019ve lost in wooing,\n In watching and pursuing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The light that lies\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In woman\u2019s eyes\n Has been my heart\u2019s undoing.\n Though wisdom oft has sought me\n I scorn\u2019d the lore she brought me,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 My only books\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Were woman\u2019s looks,\n And folly\u2019s all they\u2019ve taught me.\n \n Her smile when beauty granted,\n I hung with gaze enchanted,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Like him the sprite\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whom maids by night\n Oft met in glen that\u2019s haunted.\n Like him, too, beauty won me\n But while her eyes were on me\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If once their ray\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Was turned away\n Oh! Winds could not outrun me.\n \n And are those follies going?\n And is my proud heart growing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Too cold or wise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For brilliant eyes\n Again to set it glowing?\n No\u2014vain, alas! The endeavor\n From bonds so sweet to sever;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Poor wisdom\u2019s chance\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Against a glance\n Is now as weak as ever.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The time I\u2019ve lost in wooing,<br \/>\n In watching and pursuing<br \/>\n     The light that lies<br \/>\n     In woman\u2019s eyes<br \/>\n Has been my heart\u2019s undoing.<\/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":[292],"class_list":["post-7027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-thomas-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027","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=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}