{"id":10115,"date":"2023-11-04T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:50:31","slug":"to-a-poet-a-thousand-years-hence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-a-poet-a-thousand-years-hence\/","title":{"rendered":"To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10117 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/valence-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"id00003\" style=\"text-align: center;\">To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by James Elroy Flecker<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00004\">I who am dead a thousand years,<br \/>\nAnd wrote this sweet archaic song,<br \/>\nSend you my words for messengers<br \/>\nThe way I shall not pass along.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00005\">I care not if you bridge the seas,<br \/>\nOr ride secure the cruel sky,<br \/>\nOr build consummate palaces<br \/>\nOf metal or of masonry.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00006\">But have you wine and music still,<br \/>\nAnd statues and a bright-eyed love,<br \/>\nAnd foolish thoughts of good and ill,<br \/>\nAnd prayers to them who sit above?<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00007\">How shall we conquer? Like a wind<br \/>\nThat falls at eve our fancies blow,<br \/>\nAnd old Moeonides the blind<br \/>\nSaid it three thousand years ago.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00008\">O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,<br \/>\nStudent of our sweet English tongue,<br \/>\nRead out my words at night, alone:<br \/>\nI was a poet, I was young.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00009\">Since I can never see your face,<br \/>\nAnd never shake you by the hand,<br \/>\nI send my soul through time and space<br \/>\nTo greet you. You will understand.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was an English poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Though his literary career was cut short by his premature death from tuberculosis at age 30, Flecker left behind a memorable body of poetic works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was an English poet, dramatist, and diplomat. 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