{"id":300,"date":"2010-03-21T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=300"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:00:29","slug":"hidden-flame-by-john-dryden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/hidden-flame-by-john-dryden\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Flame by John Dryden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/JohnDryden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301 lazyload\" title=\"JohnDryden\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/JohnDryden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/235;\" \/><\/a>John Dryden (1631-1700)<\/p>\n<p>Hidden Flame by John Dryden<\/p>\n<p>Feed a flame within, which so torments me<br \/>\nThat it both pains my heart, and yet contains me:<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis such a pleasing smart, and I so love it,<br \/>\nThat I had rather die than once remove it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he, for whom I grieve, shall never know it;<br \/>\nMy tongue does not betray, nor my eyes show it.<br \/>\nNot a sigh, nor a tear, my pain discloses,<br \/>\nBut they fall silently, like dew on roses.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to prevent my Love from being cruel,<br \/>\nMy heart&#8217;s the sacrifice, as &#8217;tis the fuel;<br \/>\nAnd while I suffer this to give him quiet,<br \/>\nMy faith rewards my love, though he deny it.<\/p>\n<p>On his eyes will I gaze, and there delight me;<br \/>\nWhile I conceal my love no frown can fright me.<br \/>\nTo be more happy I dare not aspire,<br \/>\nNor can I fall more low, mounting no higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dryden (1631-1700) Hidden Flame by John Dryden Feed a flame within, which so torments me That it both pains my heart, and yet contains me: &#8216;Tis such a pleasing smart, and I so love it, That I had rather die than once remove it. Yet he, for whom I grieve, shall never know it;&#8230;<\/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":[12,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1600s","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}