{"id":7926,"date":"2022-02-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2022-02-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T06:00:00","slug":"nellie-of-kelmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/nellie-of-kelmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nellie of Kelmar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, February 4, 1914<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sunset bells had ceased their song;
    The sunset fires had gone,
And twilight, falling from the stars,
    Fell on us two alone.
Soft, undulating waves of grain
    Beneath the mountain\u2019s crest
Lay as a mesh of silken lace
    Upon a sobbing breast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The golden peaks just glorified
    Grew somber, sad and sear;
The whippoorwills began their flight,
    Yet I still lingered there.
For fairer than the roses wild
    And purer than each star
Was she who lingered by my side,
    Dear Nellie of Kelmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With passion deep my lips were fraught
    And breathed my bosom\u2019s cry;
Then softer than the dying day
    Her answer was a sigh.
Oh bliss, oh rapture, treasured sweets,
    Of love dream void of pain;
I\u2019d give my life, my soul, my all
    To live that hour again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, February 4, 1914. The sunset bells had ceased their song;    The sunset fires had gone,And twilight, falling from the stars,    Fell on us two alone.Soft, undulating waves of grain    Beneath the mountain\u2019s crestLay as a mesh of silken lace    Upon a sobbing breast. The golden peaks […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","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=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}