{"id":635,"date":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","slug":"to-one-in-paradise-by-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-one-in-paradise-by-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/poe2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-214 lazyload\" title=\"poe2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/poe2-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/poe2-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/poe2-894x1024.jpg 894w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/poe2.jpg 901w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 262px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 262\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe<br \/>\nThou wast that all to me, love,<br \/>\nFor which my soul did pine?<br \/>\nA green isle in the sea, love,<br \/>\nA fountain and a shrine,<br \/>\nAll wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,<br \/>\nAnd all the flowers were mine.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, dream too bright to last!<br \/>\nAh, starry Hope! that didst arise<br \/>\nBut to be overcast!<br \/>\nA voice from out the Future cries,<br \/>\n&#8220;On! on!&#8221;?but o&#8217;er the Past<br \/>\n(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies<br \/>\nMute, motionless, aghast!<\/p>\n<p>For, alas! alas! with me<br \/>\nThe light of Life is o&#8217;er!<br \/>\n&#8220;No more?no more?no more&#8221;?<br \/>\n(Such language holds the solemn sea<br \/>\nTo the sands upon the shore)<br \/>\nShall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,<br \/>\nOr the stricken eagle soar!<\/p>\n<p>And all my days are trances,<br \/>\nAnd all my nightly dreams<br \/>\nAre where thy dark eye glances,<br \/>\nAnd where thy footstep gleams?<br \/>\nIn what ethereal dances,<br \/>\nBy what eternal streams!<\/p>\n<p>Alas! for that accursed time<br \/>\nThey bore thee o&#8217;er the billow,<br \/>\nFrom love to titled age and crime,<br \/>\nAnd an unholy pillow!<br \/>\nFrom me, and from our misty clime,<br \/>\nWhere weeps the silver willow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine? A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry&#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-635","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\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}