{"id":931,"date":"2011-04-05T22:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=931"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:52:03","slug":"nightingales-by-robert-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/nightingales-by-robert-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightingales by Robert Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bridges.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-932 lazyload\" title=\"_Bridges\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bridges-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bridges-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bridges.jpg 436w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 218px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 218\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nightingales<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Robert Bridges<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come,<br \/>\nAnd bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom<br \/>\nYe learn your song:<br \/>\nWhere are those starry woods? O might I wander there,<br \/>\nAmong the flowers, which in that heavenly air<br \/>\nBloom the year long!<br \/>\nNay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams:<br \/>\nOur song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams,<br \/>\nA throe of the heart,<br \/>\nWhose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound,<br \/>\nNo dying cadence nor long sigh can sound,<br \/>\nFor all our art.<br \/>\nAlone, aloud in the raptured ear of men<br \/>\nWe pour our dark nocturnal secret; and then,<br \/>\nAs night is withdrawn<br \/>\nFrom these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,<br \/>\nDream, while the innumerable choir of day<br \/>\nWelcome the dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightingales Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there, Among the flowers, which in that heavenly air Bloom the year long! Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams:&#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":[4,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-classic-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}