{"id":8902,"date":"2022-12-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2022-12-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:00:00","slug":"to-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/to-a-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"To a Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1914-12-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, December 2, 1914<\/a>. By Arthur Symons.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A pensive photograph<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Watches me from the shelf\u2014<br\/>Ghost of old love and half<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ghost of myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>How the dear waiting eyes<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Watch me and love me yet\u2014<br\/>Sad home of memories,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her waiting eyes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Ghost of old love, wronged ghost,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Return, through all the pain<br\/>Of all once loved, long lost,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Come back again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Forget me not, but forgive!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alas, too late I cry.<br\/>We are two ghosts that had their chance to live,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And lost it, she and I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, December 2, 1914. By Arthur Symons. A pensive photograph&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Watches me from the shelf\u2014Ghost of old love and half&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ghost of myself! How the dear waiting eyes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Watch me and love me yet\u2014Sad home of memories,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her waiting eyes! Ghost of old love, wronged ghost,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Return, through all the painOf all once loved, long lost,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-arthur-symons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","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=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}