{"id":315,"date":"2010-04-03T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:10:49","slug":"the-soldiers-wife-by-robert-southey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-soldiers-wife-by-robert-southey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soldier&#8217;s Wife by Robert Southey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RobertSouthey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-316 lazyload\" title=\"RobertSouthey\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RobertSouthey-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RobertSouthey-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RobertSouthey.jpg 290w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 217px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 217\/300;\" \/><\/a>Robert Southey (1774-1843)<\/p>\n<p>The Soldier&#8217;s Wife by Robert Southey<\/p>\n<p>Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart<br \/>\nTravelling painfully over the rugged road,<br \/>\nWild-visag&#8217;d Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance!<\/p>\n<p>Sorely thy little one drags by thee bare-footed,<br \/>\nCold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back<br \/>\nMeagre and livid and screaming its wretchedness.<\/p>\n<p>Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,<br \/>\nAs over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,<br \/>\nBleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.<\/p>\n<p>Thy husband will never return from the war again,<br \/>\nCold is thy hopeless heart even as Charity&#8211;<br \/>\nCold are thy famish&#8217;d babes&#8211;God help thee, widow&#8217;d One!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Soldier&#8217;s Wife by Robert Southey Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart Travelling painfully over the rugged road, Wild-visag&#8217;d Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance! Sorely thy little one drags by thee bare-footed, Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back Meagre and livid and screaming its wretchedness. Woe-begone&#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":[4,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}