{"id":842,"date":"2011-02-02T03:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=842"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:13:46","slug":"to-milton-by-oscar-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-milton-by-oscar-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"To Milton by Oscar Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-843\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wilde.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-843 lazyload\" title=\"wilde\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wilde-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wilde-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/wilde.jpg 360w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony from Library Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">To Milton<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<p>Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away<br \/>\nFrom these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;<br \/>\nThis gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours<br \/>\nSeems fallen into ashes dull and grey,<br \/>\nAnd the age changed unto a mimic play<br \/>\nWherein we waste our else too-crowded hours:<br \/>\nFor all our pomp and pageantry and powers<br \/>\nWe are but fit to delve the common clay,<br \/>\nSeeing this little isle on which we stand,<br \/>\nThis England, this sea-lion of the sea,<br \/>\nBy ignorant demagogues is held in fee,<br \/>\nWho love her not: Dear God! is this the land<br \/>\nWhich bare a triple empire in her hand<br \/>\nWhen Cromwell spake the word Democracy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To Milton by Oscar Wilde Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey, And the age changed unto a mimic play Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours: For all our pomp and pageantry&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}