{"id":26,"date":"2013-05-25T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/poesy\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:48:00","slug":"poesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/poesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Po\u00ebsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[Po\u00ebsy]<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\nNo!\u2014bid me not destroy my rustic lyre,<br \/>\nThough its rude notes may finer ears annoy;<br \/>\nFor I have felt one \u201cspark of Nature\u2019s fire,\u201d<br \/>\nAnd unto me that lyre hath been a joy:<br \/>\nYea, I have loved the Muses from a boy; 5<br \/>\nAnd oft when Grief did on my spirit press,<br \/>\nAnd woman\u2019s eye no smile had got for me,<br \/>\nAnd there were none to cheer me or caress,<br \/>\nI fled, my dearest Po\u00ebsy! to thee;<br \/>\nFor thou couldst always cheer my drooping heart, 10<br \/>\nAnd put Despair\u2019s dark, hideous train to flight;<br \/>\nAnon, across my darken\u2019d mind would dart<br \/>\nInspiring thoughts and visions of delight,<br \/>\nTill my glad soul forgot Misfortune\u2019s blight.<\/p>\n<p><b>George Markham Tweddell<\/b><br \/>\n[The last poem in Tweddell\u2019s Yorkshire Miscellany, p. 400 October 1846. Later<br \/>\nused as Cleveland Sonnet No. XI in Tractates No 7. Also published in Turner,<br \/>\nJ.Horsfall (undated 1890?) Yorkshire Genealogist, with which is incorporated<br \/>\nYorkshire Bibliographer, Volume II (Idel, Bradford), p. 13]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Po\u00ebsy] No!\u2014bid me not destroy my rustic lyre, Though its rude notes may finer ears annoy; For I have felt one \u201cspark of Nature\u2019s fire,\u201d And unto me that lyre hath been a joy: Yea, I have loved the Muses from a boy; 5 And oft when Grief did on my spirit press, And woman\u2019s [&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\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}