{"id":8226,"date":"2022-05-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2022-05-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T05:00:00","slug":"her-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/her-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, May 22, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was so gentle and so fair
    That I was gladdened when we met;
She had a modest, pensive air.
    In fancy I behold her yet;
She moved with such unstudied grace
    That she appeared to float along;
The beauty of her youthful face
    Was such as urges bards to song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again I saw her; years had passed;
    Alas, she had been wooed and won;
A listless look at me she cast,
    Then went on mending for her son;
She wore a wrapper that was red,
    A knot of hair, uncrimped and small;
Her beauty and her grace had fled\u2014
    She didn\u2019t seem to care at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then he came who once, mayhap,
    Had deemed her earth\u2019s most lovely thing\u2014
Had gladly held her on his lap\u2014
    And decked her finger with his ring;
He passed her with a grunt, no more,
    And then forgetting she was there,
Got down at full length on the floor
    And gamboled with their son and heir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, May 22, 1914. By Henry Howland. She was so gentle and so fair    That I was gladdened when we met;She had a modest, pensive air.    In fancy I behold her yet;She moved with such unstudied grace    That she appeared to float along;The beauty of her youthful face  […]<\/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-8226","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\/8226","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=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}