{"id":7593,"date":"2021-10-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2021-10-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:00:00","slug":"longings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/longings\/","title":{"rendered":"Longings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-10-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, October 24, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Charles Kingsley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh! That we two were Maying<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;<br>Like children with violets playing<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the shade of the whispering trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh! That we two sat dreaming<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; On the sward of some sheep trimmed down,<br>Watching the white mists streaming<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Over river and mead and town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh! That we two lay sleeping<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; In our rest in the churchyard sod;<br>With our limbs at rest on the quiet earth\u2019s breast<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And our souls at home with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, October 24, 1913. By Charles Kingsley. Oh! That we two were Maying&nbsp; &nbsp; Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;Like children with violets playing&nbsp; &nbsp; In the shade of the whispering trees. Oh! That we two sat dreaming&nbsp; &nbsp; On the sward of some sheep trimmed down,Watching the white [&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":[78],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-charles-kingsley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","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=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}