{"id":96,"date":"2010-01-24T08:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:18:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:18:10","slug":"the-sleeper-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-sleeper-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sleeper in the Valley&#8211;Arthur Rimbaud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-97 lazyload\" title=\"Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2.jpg 232w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 198px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 198\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sleeper in the Valley<br \/>\nIt is a green hollow where a stream gurgles,<br \/>\nCrazily catching silver rags of itself on the grasses;<br \/>\nWhere the sun shines from the proud mountain:<br \/>\nIt is a little valley bubbling over with light.<br \/>\nA young soldier, open-mouthed, bare-headed,<br \/>\nWith the nape of his neck bathed in cool blue cresses,<br \/>\nSleeps; he is stretched out on the grass, under the sky,<br \/>\nPale on his green bed where the light falls like rain.<br \/>\nHis feet in the yellow flags, he lies sleeping. Smiling as<br \/>\nA sick child might smile, he is having a nap:<br \/>\nCradle him warmly, Nature: he is cold.<br \/>\nNo odour makes his nostrils quiver;<br \/>\nHe sleeps in the sun, his hand on his breast<br \/>\nAt peace. There are two red holes in his right side.<br \/>\nRimbaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 and died in 1891. He was for the most part a boy poet. His work was part of the decadent movement. <\/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":[4,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}