{"id":889,"date":"2003-10-31T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2003-10-31T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=889"},"modified":"2003-10-31T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2003-10-31T13:04:39","slug":"you-andrew-marv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/you-andrew-marv\/","title":{"rendered":"You, Andrew Marvell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floscarmeli.stblogs.org\/archives\/week_2003_10_26.html#006381\">Dear Mr. Riddle&#8217;s poetry selection today<\/a> is <i>To His Coy Mistress<\/i> by Andrew Marvell, which put me in mind of this poem<br \/>\n<b>You, Andrew Marvell <\/b><br \/>\nArchibald MacLeish<br \/>\nAnd here face down beneath the sun<br \/>\nAnd here upon earth&#8217;s noonward height<br \/>\nTo feel the always coming on<br \/>\nThe always rising of the night:<br \/>\nTo feel creep up the curving east<br \/>\nThe earthy chill of dusk and slow<br \/>\nUpon those under lands the vast<br \/>\nAnd ever climbing shadow grow<br \/>\nAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees<br \/>\nTake leaf by leaf the evening strange<br \/>\nThe flooding dark about their knees<br \/>\nThe mountains over Persia change<br \/>\nAnd now at Kermanshah the gate<br \/>\nDark empty and the withered grass<br \/>\nAnd through the twilight now the late<br \/>\nFew travelers in the westward pass<br \/>\nAnd Baghdad darken and the bridge<br \/>\nAcross the silent river gone<br \/>\nAnd through Arabia the edge<br \/>\nOf evening widen and steal on<br \/>\nAnd deepen on Palmyra&#8217;s street<br \/>\nThe wheel rut in the ruined stone<br \/>\nAnd Lebanon fade out and Crete<br \/>\nhigh through the clouds and overblown<br \/>\nAnd over Sicily the air<br \/>\nStill flashing with the landward gulls<br \/>\nAnd loom and slowly disappear<br \/>\nThe sails above the shadowy hulls<br \/>\nAnd Spain go under and the shore<br \/>\nOf Africa the gilded sand<br \/>\nAnd evening vanish and no more<br \/>\nThe low pale light across that land<br \/>\nNor now the long light on the sea:<br \/>\nAnd here face downward in the sun<br \/>\nTo feel how swift how secretly<br \/>\nThe shadow of the night comes on . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Riddle&#8217;s poetry selection today is To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, which put me in mind of this poem You, Andrew Marvell Archibald MacLeish And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth&#8217;s noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night: To feel creep&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/you-andrew-marv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You, Andrew Marvell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}