{"id":268,"date":"2010-03-08T04:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=268"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:51:57","slug":"nightpiece-by-james-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/nightpiece-by-james-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightpiece by James Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/joyce.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-269 lazyload\" title=\"joyce\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/joyce-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/joyce-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/joyce.jpg 447w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 223px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 223\/300;\" \/><\/a>James Joyce (1882-1941)<\/p>\n<p>Nightpiece<\/p>\n<p>Gaunt in gloom,<br \/>\nThe pale stars their torches,<br \/>\nEnshrouded, wave.<br \/>\nGhostfires from heaven&#8217;s far verges faint illume,<br \/>\nArches on soaring arches,<br \/>\nNight&#8217;s sindark nave.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphim,<br \/>\nThe lost hosts awaken<br \/>\nTo service till<br \/>\nIn moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim,<br \/>\nRaised when she has and shaken<br \/>\nHer thurible.<\/p>\n<p>And long and loud,<br \/>\nTo night&#8217;s nave upsoaring,<br \/>\nA starknell tolls<br \/>\nAs the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,<br \/>\nVoidward from the adoring<br \/>\nWaste of souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Joyce (1882-1941)<\/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":[4,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}