{"id":391,"date":"2010-04-27T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:12:18","slug":"the-moon-by-william-h-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-moon-by-william-h-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOON by William H. Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamHenryDavies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-392 lazyload\" title=\"WilliamHenryDavies\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamHenryDavies-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamHenryDavies-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamHenryDavies.jpg 465w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 232px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 232\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">William H. Davies (1871-1940)<\/p>\n<p>THE MOON by William H. Davies<\/p>\n<p>Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul,<br \/>\nOh, thou fair Moon, so close and bright;<br \/>\nThy beauty makes me like the child<br \/>\nThat cries aloud to own thy light:<br \/>\nThe little child that lifts each arm<br \/>\nTo press thee to her bosom warm.<br \/>\nThough there are birds that sing this night<br \/>\nWith thy white beams across their throats,<br \/>\nLet my deep silence speak for me<br \/>\nMore than for them their sweetest notes:<br \/>\nWho worships thee till music fails,<br \/>\nIs greater than thy nightingales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw &#8220;discovered&#8221; him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler?in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies&#8217; second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)<\/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":[4,84,319,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-1900s","category-moon-poem","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}