{"id":3243,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3243"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-lovers-lament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-lovers-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"The lover\\&#8217;s lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The lover&#8217;s lament<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe sun descends to bring about the night<br \/>\nAnd with the sun the lover&#8217;s mood is downed<br \/>\nThere is no joy without a little light<br \/>\nThere is no light when she is not around<br \/>\nMy love ignores my pleas as well she might<br \/>\nFor I am not as great as can be found<br \/>\nAnd yet inside I know my love is right<br \/>\nA humble love can still be as profound<br \/>\nPerhaps the day will come when she&#8217;ll invite<br \/>\nMe to her side to listen to the sound<br \/>\nOf such sweet lips as hers as they recite<br \/>\nHer love for one who crawls upon the ground<br \/>\n\u00a0 Until the day returns and brings such bliss<br \/>\n\u00a0 My temper shall remain as dark as this<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSurrey sonnet, rhymed ababababababcc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lover&#8217;s lament by cricketjeff on September 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sun descends to bring about the night And with the sun the lover&#8217;s mood is downed There is no joy without a little light There is no light when she is not around My love ignores my pleas as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243\/revisions\/8265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}