{"id":296,"date":"2010-03-17T02:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:53:51","slug":"the-death-bed-by-thomas-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-death-bed-by-thomas-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thomashood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-297 lazyload\" title=\"thomashood\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thomashood-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thomashood-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thomashood.jpg 550w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/300;\" \/><\/a>Thomas Hood (1799-1845)<\/p>\n<p>The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood<\/p>\n<p>We watch&#8217;d her breathing thro&#8217; the night,<br \/>\nHer breathing soft and low,<br \/>\nAs in her breast the wave of life<br \/>\nKept heaving to and fro.<\/p>\n<p>So silently we seem&#8217;d to speak,<br \/>\nSo slowly moved about,<br \/>\nAs we had lent her half our powers<br \/>\nTo eke her living out.<\/p>\n<p>Our very hopes belied our fears,<br \/>\nOur fears our hopes belied&#8211;<br \/>\nWe thought her dying when she slept,<br \/>\nAnd sleeping when she died.<\/p>\n<p>For when the morn came dim and sad,<br \/>\nAnd chill with early showers,<br \/>\nHer quiet eyelids closed&#8211;she had<br \/>\nAnother morn than ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hood (1799-1845)<\/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":[4,419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-death-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}