{"id":9254,"date":"2023-04-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2023-04-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:00:00","slug":"spring-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/spring-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1915-04-04\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, April 4, 1915<\/a>. By Juliet Wilbor Tompkins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The spring desire is on me, for the shops are all athrong,<br\/>And the longing to be spending is a fever and a song.<br\/>I will buy a frock of linen, silver green and grassy cool,<br\/>Oh, a linen like a willow, with the mirror for a pool!<br\/>I will buy a lacy jacket and a rosy morning cap;<br\/>Ah, mother don\u2019t be angry\u2014it\u2019s the rising of the sap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The spring desire is on me, and I cannot sleep at night,<br\/>For my stockings shall be azure, and my shoes a dancing white.<br\/>There shall roses be and ribbons round the hat that I shall trim,<br\/>Oh, a laughing hat to crown me, with a shadow in the brim!<br\/>I will choose the fairest colors, I will buy the finest weaves;<br\/>Ah, mother please forgive me\u2014I am putting out my leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Let me out into the morning\u2014oh, my heart is on ahead<br\/>To the heaped and growing counters of the city garden bed.<br\/>I must fold away the winter, I must make me fine and sweet<br\/>From the throat that\u2019s full of singing to the glory of my feet!<br\/>I will buy a silver tissue, I will buy a golden plume;<br\/>Ah, mother you remember\u2014I am bursting into bloom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, April 4, 1915. By Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. The spring desire is on me, for the shops are all athrong,And the longing to be spending is a fever and a song.I will buy a frock of linen, silver green and grassy cool,Oh, a linen like a willow, with the mirror for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-9254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-juliet-wilbor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254","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=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}