{"id":7443,"date":"2021-08-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2021-08-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:00:00","slug":"she-was-a-phantom-of-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/she-was-a-phantom-of-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"She Was a Phantom of Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-08-22\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, August 22, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By William Wordsworth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was a phantom of delight<br>When first she gleamed upon my sight;<br>A lovely apparition sent<br>To be a moment\u2019s ornament;<br>Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;<br>Like twilight\u2019s too, her dusky hair;<br>But all things else about her drawn<br>From May time and the cheerful dawn,<br>A dancing shape, an image gay,<br>To haunt, to startle, and waylay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw her upon nearer view,<br>A spirit, yet a woman too!<br>Her household motions light and free,<br>And steps of virgin liberty;<br>A countenance in which did meet<br>Sweet records, promises as sweet;<br>A creature not too bright or good<br>For human nature\u2019s daily food;<br>For transient sorrows, simple wiles,<br>Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now I see with eye serene<br>The very pulse of the machine;<br>A being breathing thoughtful breath<br>A traveler between life and death;<br>The reason firm, the temperate will,<br>Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;<br>A perfect woman, nobly planned<br>To warn, to comfort, and command;<br>And yet a spirit still and bright<br>With something of angelic light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 22, 1913. By William Wordsworth. She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition sentTo be a moment\u2019s ornament;Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;Like twilight\u2019s too, her dusky hair;But all things else about her drawnFrom May time and the cheerful dawn,A dancing shape, [&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":[326],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-william-wordsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","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=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}