{"id":141,"date":"2010-02-02T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=141"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:18:57","slug":"solitude-an-ode-alexander-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/solitude-an-ode-alexander-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude: An Ode&#8211;Alexander Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/AlexanderPope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142 lazyload\" title=\"AlexanderPope\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/AlexanderPope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"280\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 266px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 266\/280;\" \/><\/a>Alexander Pope (1688-1744)<\/p>\n<p>Solitude: An Ode by Alexander Pope<br \/>\nI.<br \/>\nHow happy he, who free from care<br \/>\nThe rage of courts, and noise of towns;<br \/>\nContented breaths his native air,<br \/>\nIn his own grounds.<\/p>\n<p>II.<br \/>\nWhose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,<br \/>\nWhose flocks supply him with attire,<br \/>\nWhose trees in summer yield him shade,<br \/>\nIn winter fire.<\/p>\n<p>III.<br \/>\nBlest! who can unconcern&#8217;dly find<br \/>\nHours, days, and years slide swift away,<br \/>\nIn health of body, peace of mind,<br \/>\nQuiet by day,<\/p>\n<p>IV.<br \/>\nSound sleep by night; study and ease<br \/>\nTogether mix&#8217;d; sweet recreation,<br \/>\nAnd innocence, which most does please,<br \/>\nWith meditation.<\/p>\n<p>V.<br \/>\nThus let me live, unheard, unknown;<br \/>\nThus unlamented let me dye;<br \/>\nSteal from the world, and not a stone<br \/>\nTell where I lye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Pope (1688-1744)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1700s","category-depression-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}