{"id":8044,"date":"2022-03-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2022-03-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T05:00:00","slug":"a-former-lovers-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-former-lovers-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"A (former) Lover’s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, March 28, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindly send my letters back,
    Sweet Marie;
You possess a lofty stack
    Penned by me;
Since our dream of love is o\u2019er
You\u2019ll not need them any more\u2014
Send them quickly, I implore,
    Sweet Marie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have filled me with dismay,
    Sweet Marie;
There are other fish, you say,
    In the sea;
You have made my future black;
All my hopes are dead, alack!
But please send my letters back,
    Sweet Marie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All my days I\u2019ll mourn for you,
    Sweet Marie;
Ever fond and ever true
    I shall be;
When my passion was intense
I wrote letters lacking sense\u2014
Send them back at my expense,
    Sweet Marie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not tell me they are burned,
    Sweet Marie;
Let them safely be returned
    Speedily;
Send this with them, please my dear;
On the day that they appear
I will do the burning here,
    Sweet Marie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to my plaintive wail,
    Sweet Marie;
Send them by the fastest mail
    Back to me;
Let my plea be not in vain;
Place them in my hands again,
And to me you shall remain
    Sweet Marie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, March 28, 1914. By Henry Howland. Kindly send my letters back,    Sweet Marie;You possess a lofty stack    Penned by me;Since our dream of love is o\u2019erYou\u2019ll not need them any more\u2014Send them quickly, I implore,    Sweet Marie. You have filled me with dismay,    Sweet Marie;There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","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=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}