{"id":7120,"date":"2021-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2021-05-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T05:00:00","slug":"the-missing-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-missing-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-05-15\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, May 15, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Samuel Minturn Peck.<\/em>\n \n\n There was a little woman flower\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Sweeter far than all\n The violets and the daffodils\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That come at Springtime\u2019s call.\n \n All the blossoms loved her,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Even the happy birds;\n They piped their little hearts to her\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because they had no words.\n \n \u2019Tis spring again. The skies are blue;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Blossoms and birds I see\n But the little flower maiden\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh tell me where is she!\n \n The sorrowing Wind low-answered:\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cFlower, and bird, and fern,\n And in the year, the autumn leaf\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They only may return.\u201d\n \n \u201c\u2019Tis true, tis true, O Wind,\u201d I sighed,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cTis bitter, too, alack:\n In life what we love most and lose\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Can nevermore come back.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There was a little woman flower<br \/>\n     Sweeter far than all<br \/>\n The violets and the daffodils<br \/>\n     That come at Springtime\u2019s call.<\/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":[272],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-samuel-minturn-peck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}