{"id":981,"date":"2011-05-20T01:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-06-24T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:09:35","slug":"a-pause-of-thought-by-christina-rossetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-pause-of-thought-by-christina-rossetti\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Christina_Rossetti.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716 lazyload\" title=\"Christina_Rossetti\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Christina_Rossetti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"294\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/294;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Rossetti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti<\/p>\n<p>I looked for that which is not, nor can be,<br \/>\nAnd hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:<br \/>\nBut years must pass before a hope of youth<br \/>\nIs resigned utterly.<\/p>\n<p>I watched and waited with a steadfast will:<br \/>\nAnd though the object seemed to flee away<br \/>\nThat I so longed for, ever day by day<br \/>\nI watched and waited still.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;<br \/>\nMy expectation wearies and shall cease;<br \/>\nI will resign it now and be at peace:<br \/>\nYet never gave it o&#8217;er.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I said: It is an empty name<br \/>\nI long for; to a name why should I give<br \/>\nThe peace of all the days I have to live<br \/>\nYet gave it all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit<br \/>\nFor healthy joy and salutary pain:<br \/>\nThou knowest the chase useless, and again<br \/>\nTurnest to follow it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth: But years must pass before a hope of youth Is resigned utterly. I watched and waited with a steadfast will: And though the object seemed to flee away That&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-rossetti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}