{"id":356,"date":"2010-04-18T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=356"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:04:24","slug":"on-a-girdle-by-edmund-waller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/on-a-girdle-by-edmund-waller\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Girdle by EDMUND WALLER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Edmundwaller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-357 lazyload\" title=\"Edmundwaller\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Edmundwaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/300;\" \/><\/a>Edmund Waller (1606-1687)<\/p>\n<p>On a Girdle by EDMUND WALLER<\/p>\n<p>That which her slender waist confined,<br \/>\nShall now my joyful temples bind:<br \/>\nNo monarch but would give his crown,<br \/>\nHis arms might do what this has done.<br \/>\nIt was my heaven&#8217;s extremest sphere,<br \/>\nThe pale which held that lovely deer.<br \/>\nMy joy, my grief, my hope, my love,<br \/>\nDid all within this circle move!<br \/>\nA narrow compass! and yet there<br \/>\nDwelt all that&#8217;s good, and all that&#8217;s fair:<br \/>\nGive me but what this ribbon bound,<br \/>\nTake all the rest the sun goes round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Waller (1606-1687)<\/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":[12,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1600s","category-erotic-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}