{"id":3429,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3429"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-doomed-bride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-doomed-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"The doomed bride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The doomed bride<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/658.html]<br \/>\nMy master bade me bear her here<br \/>\nWhere he would win her heart with fire<br \/>\nThe maiden trembles in her fear<br \/>\nThe victim of his vain desire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She&#8217;ll wait for him she has no choice<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The evil forces thus conspire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She&#8217;s held by his remembered voice<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The victim of his vain desire<br \/>\nThe dreams he wove now fill her mind<br \/>\nWith songs composed for daemon&#8217;s choir<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s left redemption far behind<br \/>\nThe victim of his vain desire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My master bade me bear her here<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The victim of his vain desire<\/p>\n<p>My heart is filled with doom and dread<br \/>\nAnd sounds that echo from his lyre<br \/>\nInveigle her to join the dead<br \/>\nThe victim of his vain desire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The wedding banns will be proclaimed<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And ring like bells from highest spire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This path for her was preordained<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The victim of his vain desire<br \/>\nAnd I his humble stead must fade<br \/>\nI dare not face his awesome ire<br \/>\nI could perhaps have saved the maid<br \/>\nThe victim of his vain desire<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My heart is filled with doom and dread<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The victim of his vain desire<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA double Kyrielle sonnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doomed bride by cricketjeff on December 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/658.html] My master bade me bear her here Where he would win her heart with fire The maiden trembles in her fear The victim of his vain desire \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She&#8217;ll wait for him she has no choice \u00a0 [&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-3429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3429","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=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8080,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3429\/revisions\/8080"}],"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=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}