{"id":15,"date":"2013-05-26T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:42:20","slug":"sonnet-to-l-w-crummey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/26\/sonnet-to-l-w-crummey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet [to L. W. Crummey]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Cleveland Sonnets,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Third series No. 36 (1890)<\/i><br \/>\n<i>[Published with the approval of<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Middlesbrough Library,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Listed Tweddell Collection MPLib]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Sonnet [to L. W. Crummey]<\/b><br \/>\n<i>In affectionate Remembrance of LAWSON FLECK CRUMMEY,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>M.R.C.S., Author of \u201cExtracts from the Diary of a Living<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Physician,\u201d and other Works; who was Born at Stokesley, Oct.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>23rd 1808; practised his Profession there and at<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Middlesbrough for several Years; Died at Great Ayton, June<\/i><br \/>\n<i>25th, and was Buried at Stokesley, June 28th, 1886.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\nNear Fifty Years we had been faithful Friends;<br \/>\nNo angry word or look e\u2019er broke the charm<br \/>\nWhich brightens life, despite of the alarm<br \/>\nAdversity may raise, although she sends<br \/>\nHer troubles thick upon us. He who blends 5<br \/>\nTrue Friendship with his acts through life, will find<br \/>\nThat all our various human Ills combined<br \/>\nAre powerless to destroy Bliss, which depends<br \/>\nOn neither Wealth or Fame. And when Disease<br \/>\nHas seized upon us, then such skill as he 10<br \/>\nLoved to exert for poor humanity,<br \/>\nHas often to the sufferers brought ease.<br \/>\nBoth pathos and humour in his life did blend,<br \/>\nAs in his writings. Such was my dear friend.<br \/>\nNOTE,\u2014The Manuscript of my departed friend\u2019s unpublished<br \/>\nVagrancy Sketches having been kindly presented to me by his<br \/>\nWidow and Daughters, it is my intention to give them in the little<br \/>\nAnnual which I am attempting to establish for the North of<br \/>\nEngland.<\/p>\n<p><b>George Markham Tweddell<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Sonnets, Third series No. 36 (1890) [Published with the approval of Middlesbrough Library, Listed Tweddell Collection MPLib] Sonnet [to L. W. Crummey] In affectionate Remembrance of LAWSON FLECK CRUMMEY, M.R.C.S., Author of \u201cExtracts from the Diary of a Living Physician,\u201d and other Works; who was Born at Stokesley, Oct. 23rd 1808; practised his Profession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}