{"id":3322,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3322"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","slug":"the-bard-as-bridegroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-bard-as-bridegroom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard as Bridegroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Bard as Bridegroom<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHis skin was white like stars at night<br \/>\nHis sword shone like the sun<br \/>\nHe took delight to tell each night<br \/>\nThe sagas he had spun<br \/>\nA mighty King with joy to bring<br \/>\nThe birds took wing to hear him sing<\/p>\n<p>A fine rosette of hair like jet<br \/>\nAnd cheeks blushed like a rose<br \/>\nHis soul regret he&#8217;s unwed yet<br \/>\nAnd how his ardour grows<br \/>\nThis mighty Prince whose deeds evince<br \/>\nThe favoured tints of sword-light glints<\/p>\n<p>She lost her heart before the start<br \/>\nOf every tale he told<br \/>\nWas torn apart by such an art<br \/>\nLearned from the bards of old<br \/>\nHe set on sale each well wrought tale<br \/>\nFrom Ahab&#8217;s whale to Martha&#8217;s pail<\/p>\n<p>This poet&#8217;s skills gave her a thrill<br \/>\nShe offered him her hand<br \/>\nShe loves him still and calls him Will<br \/>\nA name all understand<br \/>\nAnd now they&#8217;re wed their needs well fed<br \/>\nThose sagas led to beauty&#8217;s bed<\/p>\n<p>For poets always win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bard as Bridegroom by cricketjeff on October 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved His skin was white like stars at night His sword shone like the sun He took delight to tell each night The sagas he had spun A mighty King with joy to bring The birds took wing to hear [&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-3322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3322","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=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3322\/revisions\/8185"}],"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=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}