{"id":575,"date":"2010-06-26T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-06-26T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T05:11:07","slug":"a-poison-tree-by-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-poison-tree-by-william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poison Tree by William Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139 lazyload\" title=\"williamblake\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg 1423w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 231px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 231\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Blake (1757?1827)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Poison Tree by William Blake<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>I was angry with my friend:<br \/>\nI told my wrath, my wrath did end.<br \/>\nI was angry with my foe:<br \/>\nI told it not, my wrath did grow.<\/p>\n<p>And I watered it in fears,<br \/>\nNight and morning with my tears;<br \/>\nAnd I sunned it with smiles,<br \/>\nAnd with soft deceitful wiles.<\/p>\n<p>And it grew both day and night,<br \/>\nTill it bore an apple bright.<br \/>\nAnd my foe beheld it shine.<br \/>\nAnd he knew that it was mine,<\/p>\n<p>And into my garden stole<br \/>\nWhen the night had veiled the pole;<br \/>\nIn the morning glad I see<br \/>\nMy foe outstretched beneath the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poison Tree by William Blake ? I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1700s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}