{"id":509,"date":"2010-05-31T05:49:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=509"},"modified":"2019-05-23T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:43:19","slug":"the-young-man%e2%80%99s-song-w-b-yeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-young-man%e2%80%99s-song-w-b-yeats\/","title":{"rendered":"THE YOUNG MAN&#8217;S SONG W. B. Yeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Yeats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-443 lazyload\" title=\" William Butler Yeats \" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Yeats-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THE YOUNG MAN&#8217;S SONG<\/p>\n<p>I whispered, &#8220;I am too young,&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd then, &#8220;I am old enough&#8221;;<br \/>\nWherefore I threw a penny<br \/>\nTo find out if I might love.<br \/>\n&#8220;Go and love, go and love, young man,<br \/>\nIf the lady be young and fair,&#8221;<br \/>\nAh, penny, brown penny, brown penny,<br \/>\nI am looped in the loops of her hair.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, love is the crooked thing,<br \/>\nThere is nobody wise enough<br \/>\nTo find out all that is in it,<br \/>\nFor he would be thinking of love<br \/>\nTill the stars had run away,<br \/>\nAnd the shadows eaten the moon.<br \/>\nAh, penny, brown penny, brown penny,<br \/>\nOne cannot begin it too soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE YOUNG MAN&#8217;S SONG I whispered, &#8220;I am too young,&#8221; And then, &#8220;I am old enough&#8221;; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. &#8220;Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair,&#8221; Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops&#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":[84,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s","category-yeats"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}