{"id":619,"date":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=619"},"modified":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","slug":"to-the-lake-by-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-the-lake-by-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"TO THE LAKE by Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"poe\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe-251x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe.png 503w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 251px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 251\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nEdgar Allan Poe<br \/>\n(1809-1849)<\/p>\n<p>TO THE LAKE<\/p>\n<p>In Spring of youth it was my lot<br \/>\nTo haunt of the wide world a spot<br \/>\nThe which I could not love the less &#8211;<br \/>\nSo lovely was the loneliness<br \/>\nOf a wild lake, with black rock bound,<br \/>\nAnd the tall pines that towered around.<\/p>\n<p>But when the night had thrown her pall<br \/>\nUpon that spot, as upon all,<br \/>\nAnd the mystic wind went by<br \/>\nMurmuring in melody &#8211;<br \/>\nThen &#8211; ah, then, I would awake<br \/>\nTo the terror of the lone lake.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that terror was not fright,<br \/>\nBut a tremulous delight &#8211;<br \/>\nA feeling not the jewelled mine<br \/>\nCould teach or bribe me to define &#8211;<br \/>\nNor Love &#8211; although the love were thine.<\/p>\n<p>Death was in that poisonous wave,<br \/>\nAnd in its gulf a fitting grave<br \/>\nFor him who thence could solace bring<br \/>\nTo his lone imagining &#8211;<br \/>\nWhose solitary soul could make<br \/>\nAn Eden of that dim lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) TO THE LAKE In Spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the less &#8211; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around. But when the&#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":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-edgar-allen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}