{"id":408,"date":"2010-05-01T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=408"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:12:25","slug":"when-i-was-one-and-twenty-by-alfred-edward-housman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/when-i-was-one-and-twenty-by-alfred-edward-housman\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AlfredEdwardHousman.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-409 lazyload\" title=\"AlfredEdwardHousman\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AlfredEdwardHousman-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AlfredEdwardHousman-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AlfredEdwardHousman.jpeg 451w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. E. Housman (1859-1936)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman<\/p>\n<p>When I was one-and-twenty<br \/>\nI heard a wise man say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Give crowns and pounds and guineas<br \/>\nBut not your heart away;<br \/>\nGive pearls away and rubies<br \/>\nBut keep your fancy free.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut I was one-and-twenty,<br \/>\nNo use to talk to me.<br \/>\nWhen I was one-and-twenty<br \/>\nI heard him say again,<br \/>\n&#8220;The heart out of the bosom<br \/>\nWas never given in vain;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis paid with sighs a-plenty<br \/>\nAnd sold for endless rue.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I am two-and-twenty,<br \/>\nAnd oh, &#8217;tis true, &#8217;tis true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. E. Housman was born March 26, 1859, and, after a classical education, he was, for ten years, a Higher Division Clerk in H. M. Patent Office. Later in life, he became a teacher.<\/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":[4,84,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-1900s","category-poems-for-kids"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}