{"id":7076,"date":"2021-04-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2021-04-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:00:00","slug":"cry-of-the-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/cry-of-the-dreamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry of the Dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-04-27\/ed-1\/seq-16\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, April 27, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By John Boyle O\u2019Reilly.<\/em>\n \n\n I am tired of planning and toiling\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In the crowded hives of men;\n Heartweary of building and spoiling,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And spoiling and building again.\n And I long for the dear old river,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where I dreamed my youth away,\n For a dreamer lives forever\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And a toiler dies in a day.\n \n I am sick of the showy seeming,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of a life that is half a lie;\n Of the faces lined with scheming\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In the throng that hurries by,\n From the sleepless thoughts of endeavor\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I would go where the children play;\n For a dreamer lives forever,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And a thinker dies in a day.\n \n I can feel no pride but pity,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For the burdens the rich endure;\n There is nothing sweet in the city\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But the patient lives of the poor.\n Oh, the little hands too skillful\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the child mind choked with weeds!\n The daughter\u2019s heart grown willful,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the father\u2019s heart that bleeds!\n \n No, no! From the street\u2019s rude bustle\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From trophies of mart and stage,\n I would fly to the wood\u2019s low rustle\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the meadow\u2019s kindly page.\n Let me dream as of yore by the river\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And be loved for the dream alway;\n For a dreamer lives forever,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And a thinker dies in a day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I am tired of planning and toiling<br \/>\n     In the crowded hives of men;<br \/>\n Heartweary of building and spoiling,<br \/>\n     And spoiling and building again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-john-boyle-oreilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","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=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}